A severe weather warning issued for the Bay of Plenty in the weekend has been lifted with predictions of fine spells for today.

The deep low pressure system crossed the country this weekend, bringing lashings of rain and wind for many parts of New Zealand.

Some 700 properties were left without power in Te Puke on Sunday when power was cut around 7.30am.

According to reports on social media, the power supply was not due to be restored until about 10am and the cause was trees being blown over onto power lines.

SunLive is working on getting a full statement from Powerco about the outage.

Auckland also felt the effects on Saturday night, with northeast gales gusting to 100km/h in many spots and peaking at 120km/h on Tiritiri Matangi Island.

'It has been quite some time since northeasterlies have been this strong in Auckland after weeks of westerlies, so some trees with all their new growth could not cope,” says MetService forecaster Cameron Coutts.

Wind gusts around 100km/h also occurred in Taranaki and exposed eastern coasts of both islands, and this morning have reached 140km/hr about the higher parts of Wellington.

The upside of the current spell of nasty weather is that drier parts of Northland, Auckland and Coromandel Peninsula received useful amounts of rain on Saturday, with 10 to 30mm for most, but a few places recorded 60-80mm.

'People on tank water should have had a bit of a top up,” says Cameron.

The low is now moving quickly away to the southeast with warnings and watches expected to be over by late Monday morning.

However, it remains unsettled through the working week and into February, with more fronts on the way.