This pattern means an east to northeasterly airflow gets funnelled over the country, and while it will be sunny in the east of the South Island tomorrow it won’t get as warm as it did today due to cooler winds coming off the sea. The east coast of the North Island will get some increasing cloud tomorrow and showers developing north of Gisborne in the evening.

Our main feature for Thursday is the low north of New Zealand, this will bring rain to Northland and perhaps into Auckland at times. In the Waikato the risk is fairly low of any showers but there may still be one or two make it through. The heaviest rain will be in Northland mainly in the east tomorrow and perhaps eastern parts of Coromandel, then overnight and into Friday morning about northern parts of East Cape.