A months worth of rainfall has battered some parts of the country over Easter weekend

All weather watches and warnings have been lifted except for a severe thunderstorm watch covering a chunk of Hawke's Bay, Waikato, and Bay of Plenty.

MetService says Whangarei received almost 90 millimetres of rain between Thursday and Sunday -- surpassing its 82 millimetre April average.

Meteorologist Alec Holden says the worst affected area was Albany to Mount Roskill -- which received a whopping 130 millimetres of rain.

He says the average April rainfall is 90 millimetres at most.