Hawke's Bay can expect mild, cloudy weather for weekend

Heavy seas with Napier Hill on the horizon, pictured from Westshore, Napier. Photo / Paul Taylor

A mild weekend is ahead for Hawke's Bay as northeasterly winds over the country bringcloudy, warm and humid conditions.

MetService meteorologist Lisa Murray said there would be cloudy periods.

"A blocking high stationed east of the country is helping to ward off any low-pressure systems, and as a result New Zealand will experience northeasterly winds and warm, humid air.

"For the Napier region, that is pushing that cloud onto Hawke's Bay and Gisborne and everything in that flow, so there is a lot of cloud coming around the high and it is pushing it onshore."

Today, it will be fine, with high cloud and northeasterlies, and a high of 24C in Hastings.

Temperatures are set to drop considerably overnight with 16C forecast until Monday.

"There will be some high cloud around and that's because we are in this northeasterly sort of wind flow over the country which is bringing through warm, humid air."

Althoughthat didn't mean there wouldn't be fine spells, she said.

However, things are set to take a turn next week, with showers forecast almost every day.

Monday's high will be 25C.

It will otherwise be partly cloudy, with a few showers and light winds.