Do not hang out your washing - heavy rain is falling, and is not expected to ease off until 10am tomorrow.
Metservice meteorologist Tom Adams said there was a heavy rain warning across the Bay of Plenty, which is expected to start in the Eastern Bay.
"We have a heavy
rain warning in the Eastern Bay to start off with and this will spread elsewhere overnight. Between 10pm tonight and 10am tomorrow 70 to 80mm of rain in the Kaimai ranges and over Mamaku.
"The worst of it is in the 12 hours from 10pm tonight to 10 am Thursday.
"In the Eastern Bay, that's a longer period where rain is expected out there; heavy rains are expected from 9am today to 2pm on Thursday, so there will be a longer net accumulation of water.
