Issued by The MetService

Saturday
North Island, rain spreading southwards reaching Taranaki to Bay of Plenty in the evening, with heavy falls developing in the north. Fine elsewhere with increasing high cloud. South Island, cloud increasing. Light rain about Fiordland, also developing about the south coast.

Sunday
North Island, rain, heavy about Bay of Plenty, easing to showers from the north. South Island, rain spreading to most places, becoming heavy about Marlborough and Canterbury, but mainly fine about the fiords and South Westland. High country snow in the east.

Chatham Islands
Remaining showers clearing on Saturday with southwesterlies dying away. Cloud increasing on Sunday with easterlies freshening. Rain developing on Monday easterlies rising to gale.

Severe Weather Outlook - Issued by the Metservice:
A ridge will move to the east of the country on Saturday as another major trough with it s associated band of rain and strong northeast winds approaches.It is expected to spread over Northland during Saturday bringing moderate confidence that rainfall amounts will reach warning criteria there, mainly in eastern areas.. On Sunday, heavy north to northeasterly rain is expected swing through the Bay of Plenty and down the North Island east coast to reach the upper South Island east coast later in the day. Confidence is now moderate that warnable rainfall will occur in Bay of Plenty, but elsewhere from Waikato to Gisborne and south through Hawkes Bay to Wairarapa confidence is low, due to the likely speed of the system.
The easterly rain band will become quasi-stationary over north Otago,Canterbury and Marlborough from later Sunday through to and including Tuesday. The focus for the heaviest rain now seems to be over north Canterbury and the Kaikoura Ranges once again, where the risk of warnable rainfall is now moderate. Elsewhere in these eastern areas the risk is lower. However, given the recent heavy rainfalls in these areas, enough rain is likely to fall over about a 48 hour period to cause further problems.

Thanks heaps Derek for a clear easy to follow report.
I just wish you could have done better for Sunday

Unfortunately this on again off again rain is a pain. Our grounds are just bog and surface water. The fine days have no heat in them and the ground is not drying up. The lawns have not been mowed for around 8 weeks now and all is really untidy. Down the back where our wood shed lives reminds me of a pig pen. Just mud and extremely slippery. I am real careful with the wheelbarrow and the dogs tearing around me. Landing on my swede is not a desirable option.
I will definitely be pleased to see the back end of this winter.

Great just great

Appears I am not mowing the lawns for another week.
Sunday = thunderstorms according to Weather Underground.