Today’s weather certainly isn’t ideal for campers across the country as winds reach gale or near-gale in a number of main centres and regions.

The following centres have gale or near gale force winds at times this hour:

• Exposed parts of Auckland
• Tauranga
• Napier
• Wanganui
• Palmerston North/Manawatu
• Nelson
• Blenheim
• Oamaru
• Dunedin
• Haast
• Invercargill