Pretty windy up on the ridge in Waitakere, but sheltered as usual at our place. Overnight low of 9.7 deg, currently 9.8 deg with showers so far totaling 3.8 mm for today (yesterday's rain was 17 mm)

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Belmont, Lower Hutt

8.3 degrees
84% Humidity
Calm
2,4mm of rain
Barometer on 1017.5
solar 9

A decent start to the day, clear skies above with the sun trying hard to break through

Wairoa at 09:00
Drizzle. Windy and Coolish.
The Over Night Temp Low was  10.5 °C
Rainfall of  1.8 mm since midnight.
Rainfall last 24 hours 3.3 mm
Current Temp Outside is  12.2 °C with Humidity  76%  and Dew Point  8.1 °C
Latest Wind Gust  41.8 km/h with speed of  33.1 km/h  S
Wind Chill is  9.8 °C
Baro  1015.2 hPa and Solar:  179

West Melton

A lovely day again with full sunshine and for this time of the year it is amazing the weather we are getting and the temps.

Temp 10.8
Wind gust20.9 SSW
Baro 1015.6
No rain from midnight.

Any morning showers clear about eastern areas of Northland, Auckland through to East Cape, and also about Wellington through to Hawkes Bay in the east with sunny breaks then developing. Sunny areas may develop a little later in the day about Gisborne as the southerly airflow pushes more cloud into this area, showers look to clear in the morning there as well however. Winds will be breezy and cool from the south in the previously mentioned places easing later in the day.

Sunny breaks increasing in all other areas of the North Island with cool southerly winds easing dying out at night with frosts later at night inland. High’s of 12 or 13 degrees about Wellington and along the east coast, in the mid teens north of Auckland. 14 degrees about Taranaki and low double figure high’s for the Central North Island.

Sunny today along the east coast of the South Island with light winds, perhaps dying away from the southwest early in the morning north of Canterbury. Any morning cloud clears in Nelson to a sunny day, light southwesterlies die out there. There will be a little bit of high cloud across Southland and Otago however with breezy west to northwest winds especially on the southern coastline where winds will be gusty, a few showers on the western ranges also of both regions at night.

Sunny breaks increase on the West Coast with southwesterly breezes easing. In Fiordland skies should be cloudy for most of the day with the odd drizzle patch from midday, breezy northwesterlies and more widespread showers from evening.

A high of 13 for Nelson this afternoon, 11 to 12 degrees for the West Coast. 13 to 14 degrees can be expected on the east coast. Low double figure high’s about Central Otago and Southland.

WeatherWatch.co.nz
http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/tuesday%E2%80%99s-national-forecast-1

The flood risk in the Waipa and Lower Waikato rivers has eased overnight after peak river levels came in lower than expected.

Yesterday, Waikato Regional Council warned there was a risk of a once-in-20 years flood event in those waterways, and in west coast catchments, following heavy rain at the weekend and over the course of Monday.

But peak flows in the upper Waipa catchment – around Otorohanga and Te Kuiti – turned out to be less than anticipated last night, meaning less risk of flooding of the Waipa and Lower Waikato catchments as the peak flows move downstream. River levels in west coast catchments have been receding as well. No more significant rainfall is expected this week. So the flood risk forecast has now been lowered to potentially a once-in-five years event.

“This is good news for farmers and residents alongside the Waipa and Lower Waikato rivers, and those living in the west coast catchments,” said duty emergency management officer Greg Ryan.

“However, these rivers will still be swollen over the next few days and people need to exercise caution around them.

“Farmers are advised to continue to monitor water levels and move stock to higher ground if necessary. There could also be inundation of flood plains beside rivers and surface water generally that people need to take into account when travelling.”

“We will continue to monitor the situation closely and update our advice as necessary,” said Mr Ryan.

In Hamilton, residents can expect to see high Waikato River levels in the city ease today as Mighty River Power scales back releases of water from Lake Karapiro. The company yesterday released extra water from the lake to build up storage capacity there in case this was needed to help manage the peak flows coming down the Waipa in coming days. This extra release has now been stopped to help ease pressures on the Lower Waikato as the Waipa peak moves through.

Around Pirognia, the 37 continuous hours of rain flooded some fields and created other minor surface flooding.  However, much of that receded very rapidly yesterday afternoon.  The squally heavy falls that came through after sunset last night did not cause widespread additional problems..

--WeatherWatch.co.nz
http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/waikato-rivers-flood-risk-eases-faster-expected

New Plymouth: 15 degrees today, fine and sunny all day