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Updated: Sat 28 Jan, 12:00 pm
20 °C
23°C/13 °C
SW 12kph


Outlook
Northland and Auckland: Fine with cloudy periods.
Waikato, Waitomo, Taumarunui, Coromandel Peninsula and Taupo: Mainly fine. Cloud increasing this evening. A few light morning showers tomorrow.
Taranaki to Wellington, also Taihape: Fine and cloudy areas. Patchy drizzle developing on the ranges tonight. Becoming cloudy tomorrow evening, with some light showers north of Kapiti.
Bay of Plenty, and Gisborne to Wairarapa: Mainly fine. Becoming cloudy in Wairarapa tomorrow evening with some showers.
Nelson, inland Marlborough, also Otago: Fine, with variable high cloud.
The Kaikoura Coast and Canterbury: Fine today. Cloud increasing tomorrow and patchy drizzle developing.
Buller, Westland, Fiordland: Occasional rain, clearing tomorrow.
Southland: Cloudy periods, with a few showers about the coast. Westerlies, gale gusting 100 km/h near Foveaux Strait, easing tomorrow.
Chatham Islands: Mainly fine. However, a period of rain tomorrow morning, followed by a few showers.



Marine Outlook
Southwest 25 knots easing to variable 10 knots this morning, then westerly 20 knots developing this afternoon. Rough sea easing. Northwest swell 1 metre dying out. Outlook following 3 days: Becoming Monday morning northeast 15 knots, tending late Tuesday northwest and late Wednesday southwest 15 knots.

Sun 29

24°C/16 °C
Mon 30

22°C/18 °C
Tue 31

26°C/16 °C

Extended Forecast
Monday: North Island, mainly fine. South Island, mainly fine in the north and east, cloud increasing over Westland and Fiordland,and late rain or drizzle south of the Glaciers.
Tuesday: North Island, mainly fine. South Island, mainly fine in the north and east, rain or drizzle in the west, and far south.
Wednesday: North Island, mainly fine, but patchy drizzle from Taranaki to the Kapiti Coast, and late showers for Wellington and Wairarapa. South Island, rain in the west clearing at night, rain or showers developing in the east with a southerly change.
Chatham Islands: Fine spells increasing on Monday, and winds tending northwest. Mainly fine Tuesday with northwest winds. Showers and southerlies developing late Wednesday.


Extended Marine Forecast

Marine Weather Situation and Forecast issued at 1135hrs Saturday 28-Jan-2012 by MetService

NIL warning for PLENTY

Situation:
A west to southwest flow affects New Zealand over the weekend. A high moves onto northern New Zealand on Monday. The high moves away to the east on Tuesday and a front moves over much of the country on Wednesday bringing a southerly change.

Forecast issued at 1047hrs Saturday 28-Jan-2012
Valid to 11 am Saturday for Inshore waters from Great Mercury Island to Mayor Island to Matakana Island.
Strong wind advisory
Saturday:
Southwest 15 knots easing to northerly 10 knots early afternoon, becoming
northwest 15 knots early evening but northwest 25 knots gusting 35 knots south
of Slipper Island. Changing southwest 20 knots but 25 knots gusting 35 knots in
the south late this evening then easing to southwest 15 knots everywhere at
night. Slight sea becoming rough in the south early evening then moderate in the
north late this evening before easing to slight sea everywhere at night.
Fine.
Sunday:
Southwest 15 knots rising to 20 knots in the afternoon but to 25 knots gusting
35 knots south of Slipper Island. Slight sea becoming moderate in the afternoon
but rough south of Slipper island. Fine.

Outlook until midnight Wednesday:
Monday: Easterly 15 knots developing throughout in the morning and tending
northeast in the afternoon. Fine.
Tuesday: Tending northwest 10 knots in the morning. Fine.
Wednesday: Northwest 10 knots. Mainly fine.

Swell forecast to midnight Wednesday:
Northeast half a metre or less, rising to about a metre on Tuesday.

High tide at Tauranga:
Saturday 1146 1.8 metres.
Sunday 0004 1.7 metres.


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