It’s a fairly mild day in many places today as northerly quarter winds ramp up ahead of what will be a windy Easter Monday. In fact many regions are warmer than average.

Easter Sunday itself will see winds increasing more and more across the day.

By the end of today and overnight expect winds to continue to increase with gales in exposed places.

To drill down in much more detail please visit our newly upgraded www.RuralWeather.co.nz site – this has the most weather data on earth for New Zealand and locally you can see wind data and graphs to help make sense of it all, not just for 10 days out but hourly across each of those days.

• WeatherWatch.co.nz – For news, maps and general forecasts
• RuralWeather.co.nz – For the most granular NZ weather data on earth.