Today cloud is covering much of the country and rain, whether it be heavy or light falls are expected to cover more than 90% of the country either today or tonight.

Mild temperatures overnight dominated many areas with Christchurch recording 16 degrees at 3am and unusually the warmth was blowing in from the northeast.

After a sedate start with the weather for the Rugby World Cup, today the country isn’t likely to see much in the way of warm sunshine however one positive with the rain is that temperatures should remain quite mild in northern and eastern regions.

“That cold southerly is still lurking on the backside of this rain belt and tomorrow and Monday it’s arrival is going to be noticed as temperatures dive over eastern and southern parts of the Mainland” says weather analyst Richard Green.

WeatherWatch.co.nz believes snow will fall out of this approaching southerly but not to unusually low levels however low enough to remind us that winter hasn’t left us just yet.