This site contains all the safety critical information and includes MetService Severe Weather Watches and Warnings, MetService rain radar imagery and brief forecast information.
We are working to restore www.metservice.com as soon as we possibly can. You can also follow us on Facebook @MetService and Twitter @MetService
Brief Forecast for all New Zealand
Valid to Midnight Friday, 10-Apr
Northland, Auckland, Coromandel and Bay of Plenty
Partly cloudy with a few showers.
Waikato and Taupo
Partly cloudy. Isolated showers developing this morning, some may be heavy inland this afternoon.
Gisborne
Mostly cloudy with showers, more frequent from afternoon.
Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa
Mainly fine, isolated showers about inland Hawke's Bay.
Waitomo to Wellington, including Taumarunui and Taihape
Mainly fine, with patchy cloud morning and evening.
Nelson, Marlborough, and Canterbury
Generally fine, with cloudy areas about the east coast this morning and evening.
Buller to Fiordland, also Otago and Southland
Mostly fine, but partly cloudy about Fiordland and the Southland coast.
Chatham Islands
Periods of rain, heavy at times, clearing this evening.
Outlook for following three days
Saturday
North Island: Showers in the north and east turning to rain later, and becoming heavy in the north with southeast gales. Cloudy periods elsewhere with a possible shower.
South Island: Mostly fine, with a few showers in Fiordland and Southland.
Sunday
North Island: Heavy rain, easing in the north. Gale easterlies for most places, turning gale westerly.
South Island: Rain in the north, heavy at times. Showers in the west and south, with rain in Fiordland. Partly cloudy elsewhere.
Monday
North Island: Occasional rain or showers in the west, heavy at times. Rain in the east, clearing to mainly fine early.
South Island: Showers, mainly in the west, some heavy.
Chatham Islands
Cloudy periods, with a period of rain early Monday. Northeasterlies strengthening, rising to gale late Sunday, then turning northwest on Monday and easing.
Issued: 7:11am Friday 10 Apr 2026