Hawke’s Bay weather: Showers and cooler temps replace rain

Hawke's Bay is set for showers and colder temperatures. Photo / Paul Taylor

The rain and slightly warmer weather are on their way out, set to be replaced with showers and colder temperatures.

MetService meteorologist Katie Hillyer said the system that had brought severe weather to parts of the country will clear out over Wednesday and will be replaced by a brief window of drier weather.

“But that is then replaced by showery conditions over much of the country, including Hawke’s Bay,” she said.

Hillyer said the rain would come in intermittent showers starting from late on Thursday morning.

“That keeps coming over the whole weekend unfortunately,” she said.

The northerly wind over Hawke’s Bay will continue to ease over Wednesday and flip to a southerly on Thursday, helping drop temperatures.

“We’ve definitely had our warmest temperatures already with all this cloud and northerly winds that have been over the region and from [Wednesday night], as that cloud clears out, the temperatures will be able to drop overnight, so we’ll get some chillier mornings,” Hillyer said.

“Then once the southerlies come and bring a colder air mass itself, the temperatures will sort of stay a bit cooler on average as well.

“That will really be the flavour sort of until Saturday and into Sunday with these intermittent showery conditions.”

In Hastings, high temperatures are expected to peak at 14C on Thursday, drop to 11C on Friday, and remain low over the weekend, between 13C and 12C.

Napier is expected to have a high of 15C on Thursday, 12C on Friday, and between 14C and 13C on Saturday and Sunday.

“Nothing unseasonable,” Hillyer said.

“It’s just going to feel colder than is has been for the last couple of days.”

Jack Riddell is a multimedia journalist with Hawke’s Bay Today and has worked in radio and media in Auckland, London, Berlin, and Napier.