Who's ready for a long weekend? 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ Whatever your plans are, it'd be best to stay on top of the forecast with MetService New Zealand as more active, and possibly significant, weather is likely Monday and Tuesday. Why the active weather? Unusually warm 🟠 & cold 🔵 air will battle, creating an ideal set-up for low pressure, and ultimately, wind rain & wind. We'll also need to watch for a late season cold snap & low elevation snow. 😲 ~Chris | NIWA Weather

Here’s your Weather Outlook into the weekend🔎🧐 A slow-moving front in the north is set to bring a burst of heavy rain tomorrow afternoon and evening🌧 Northland has a high chance for thunderstorms to develop⚡, with localized downpours and hail also possible🌩💧🧊 Further south in Auckland, the risk of thunderstorms developing is moderate from the afternoon⛈, heavy rain and small hail is also possible🌧🧊 For your local forecast: bit.ly/metservicenz | MetService New Zealand

A lot of rain 📊 is forecast for the South Island, especially along & west of the Southern Alps 🏔️. This is good news for the hydro catchments, which have been running (highly) unusually low. Keep up-to-date with MetService New Zealand and warnings that have been issued. | NIWA Weather

💨Updated Severe Weather🌧 Winds continue across the lower South Island today, with a Strong Wind Watch for Southland, Otago, and parts of the Canterbury High Country until 7pm🟡 Saturday sits in the middle as a breather before another system brings heavy rain to Fiordland late, with an Orange HeavyRain Warning from then through to 1am Monday🟠 For full details, head to www.metservice.com/warnings/home | MetService New Zealand

Here's Angus with the Saturday update on the Severe Weather Warnings around Aotearoa this weekend. As well as the Red Heavy Rain Warning there are a number of Orange Warnings for wind and rain, and several watches. For the latest updates see http://bit.ly/AllWarnings ^TA | MetService New Zealand

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