A few showers here and there aren’t bringing serious relief to farmers and gardeners desperate for solid rain.

Lusi failed to deliver solid rainfall amounts across regions like Waikato and Manawatu especially, with Northland, Auckland, King Country and Wanganui all fairly dry too.

With no big rain makers in the short term forecast WeatherWatch.co.nz is now looking into April to see when the chance of rain might increase for these dry northern districts.

For the South Island conditions look mostly settled.