Weather looking good for Easter holiday fun

Olivia Judd (left) and Shana Martin from the US practise log rolling skills for Auckland's Royal Easter Show. Photo / Paul Estcourt

After a cold start for many on Good Friday, the long Easter weekend promises mainly fine and settled weather.

MetService forecaster Cameron Coutts said frosts were expected tomorrow morning from Waikato southwards.

"It will probably be one of the coldest mornings yet, but temperatures will warm probably into the late teens."

Similar conditions were expected on Saturday morning, but the rest of the weekend should bring fine weather and normal temperatures.

"It will be good for the people travelling to their holiday haunts, in the North Island anyway," said Mr Coutts.

Parts of the Bay of Plenty, Gisborne and Hawkes Bay are the best bets for an April tan, with northwesterly winds boosting temperatures there to highs of about 22C on Saturday and Sunday.

Weatherwatch head analyst Philip Duncan said the weekend was not likely to produce any extreme weather.

Those travelling north to holiday spots could expect a sunny start tomorrow.

Fine weather was expected over the weekend with temperatures around 19C.

Auckland could get isolated, light showers on Easter Sunday.

NATIONAL OUTLOOK

Good Friday: Frosts likely south of Auckland but becoming fine afterwards for most places in the North Island. Cold and blustery weather in Southland.

Saturday: Fine throughout the North Island apart from cloud and drizzle in western areas. Cloudy in the west of the South Island with rain or drizzle spreading north.

Easter Sunday: Mainly fine though cloudy areas in western places and a few showers developing from Taranaki southward.

(Source: MetService)