It's the calm before the storm today, as forecasters predict more rain and snow for the south and thunderstorms for the north.
The weather presented a calmer front around much of the country yesterday, with no major onslaughts and only the occasional shower.
And MetService has picked today and tomorrow to be the sunniest days of the week - before another blast of wintry weather sets in.
A severe weather outlook has been issued for the south of the country, where snow is expected as low as 200m in Southland, Otago and Canterbury and even lower in the far south later in the week. This gives hard-hit regions of the South Island just days to prepare for another wintry onslaught.
Residents are still in clean-up mode, after a weekend of wild and wet weather that has left vast tracts of farmland submerged in murky floodwater, slips spilling on to roads and properties, and hundreds forced out of their homes.