The worst of the rain is over but a strong autumnal weather pattern will replace it, bringing periods of rain and showers to the west coast of both islands, but sunny spells too. For the east conditions will become sunnier – but the week may end windy and cool in the Deep South.
Minutes before a small tornado tore through Raglan, there was almost no wind and clear skies.
"There was a clap of thunder and lightning and then that was it - the winds were up and there was debris flying everywhere," Roy Devlyn said.
Mr Devlyn was in a boat beingtowed back from the Raglan Holiday Park when the skies darkened and the tornado struck.
He considers himself lucky because he and his son had forgotten the boat keys so were going home to get them - had they remembered them, they would have been on the water when it hit.
"We would have been picked up into the air, for sure," he said.
