The MetService is predicting a wet Easter for much of the country. Enjoy the early Easter weekend weather while you can. Forecasters say most South Islanders will have a fine start to the long weekend, a "blip" in proceedings with a low pressure system bringing some rain by Easter Sunday, and then conditions becoming fine again on Easter Monday. BRADEN FASTIER/STUFF Rain is expected to affect many parts of the country on Easter Sunday and Monday. WeatherWatch head forecaster Philip Duncan said the outstanding weather system leading up to Easter was a 5000km wide area of high pressure stretching north-south from about Fiji to within a few hundred kilometres of the Antarctic.

Source: Stuff April 17, 2019 04:30 UTC