Primarily the upper North Island was in the gun today but heavy rain warnings and watches are in place for Mt Taranaki and the upper South Island, around the Tasman and Marlborough ranges until later this morning.
"This front does go through this afternoon and evening and as we head into tomorrow its more of a westerly flow.
"Although there's still a few showers in western areas of both islands, so from Northland to Manawatu and then on the West Coast of the South Island, the same sort of thing.
But it will not be as heavy as it is today, he said.
Pockets of rain and showers will be felt around most of the North Island and the Bay of Plenty will have to wait until later this afternoon for the rain to ease.
Tomorrow is expected to be better than today - although infrequent showers can be expected - another front crawls up the west of the South Island on Saturday.
"There will be some more rain coming for western areas of the South Island but for the eastern parts of the South Island, it might be some scattered rain and for the remainder of the North Island it doesn't look too bad.
Wellington would bear the brunt of strong northwesterlies over the weekend, he said.
The front coming up from the south on Saturday will hit the bottom of the North Island about midnight, so periods of rain could be expected at some point on Sunday.
