The month of November is with us and we are still seeing a spring weather pattern carrying on in the New Zealand area, bringing surges of windy Westerlies and some further rain to the western and southern sides of the south Island.

The North Island may now be entering a drying out phase – which for Hawke’s Bay means a continuation of what has already been drying out over the past month.

We take a look at La Nina, your 15 day rainfall outlook – and the big picture driving our weather for the first at least the first half of November.