{"id":132243,"date":"2025-11-13T03:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132243\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T03:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:06:07","slug":"rain-wind-and-thunderstorms-for-north-island-before-sunday-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132243\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, wind and thunderstorms for North Island before Sunday sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"GQYlWJsjruyiT\" style=\"display:none\">Thunderstorms could occur in Auckland, Northland, inland Waikato, Bay of Plenty, and the central North Island, in addition to localised downpours and possible hail. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Wet weather is expected to hit most of the country before sunny skies appear at the weekend. Photo \/ MetService\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Wet weather is expected to hit most of the country before sunny skies appear at the weekend. Photo \/ MetService<\/p>\n<p class=\"GQYlWJsjruyiT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAlthough it\u2019s a rain-filled day for Canterbury and Christchurch today [Thursday],\u201d the weather improves on Friday \u2013 just in time for Canterbury Anniversary Day,\u201d MetService meteorologist Oscar Shiviti said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GQYlWJsjruyiT\" style=\"display:none\">MetService has predicted rain will clear for most of the South island on Friday, except for in the western ranges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"GQYlWJsjruyiT\" style=\"display:none\">The North Island will have a short reprieve from the rain before another band moves in from the west in the morning, lasting into the evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"GQYlWJsjruyiT\" style=\"display:none\">Thunderstorms and hail are also possible in Gisborne, Hawke\u2019s Bay and eastern Bay of Plenty on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"GQYlWJsjruyiT\" style=\"display:none\">The wet weather continues into Saturday morning in the North Island as a rain-bearing front arrives, after moving up the South Island on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GQYlWJsjruyiT\" style=\"display:none\">Rain is also forecast for Queenstown on Saturday, with MetService warning those running the annual marathon of a soggy course. <\/p>\n<p class=\"GQYlWJsjruyiT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSunday is the pick of the weekend for all wanting to enjoy a sunny day outdoors, as a ridge of high pressure sweeps in from the Tasman Sea and thus sunnier skies with calm winds [prevail] across the country,\u201d said Shiviti. <\/p>\n<p class=\"GQYlWJsjruyiT\" style=\"display:none\">The sunshine is expected to continue into early next week, with warmer temperatures likely in particular for the South Island and lower North Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thunderstorms could occur in Auckland, Northland, inland Waikato, Bay of Plenty, and the central North Island, in addition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,9218,124,90875,5346,2082,2514,111,43,139,529,69,6560,90874,9877,2249,10809,166,19795,165,20592,14047,686,10000,4576],"class_list":["post-132243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-before","tag-could","tag-dampen","tag-expected","tag-for","tag-island","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-rain","tag-rains","tag-skies","tag-soon","tag-sunday","tag-sunny","tag-sunshine","tag-their","tag-thunderstorms","tag-way","tag-week","tag-wind","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}