{"id":168045,"date":"2025-12-04T17:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168045\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:11:13","slug":"metservice-weather-outlook-30c-heat-for-east-after-lightning-and-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168045\/","title":{"rendered":"MetService weather outlook: 30C heat for east after lightning and rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Most regions were expected to have sunny conditions this weekend, especially in the North Island as high pressure built and brought settled weather.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" Metservice says most regions will see the sun come out this weekend, especially in the North Island as high pressure builds and brings settled weather. Photo \/ supplied\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> Metservice says most regions will see the sun come out this weekend, especially in the North Island as high pressure builds and brings settled weather. Photo \/ supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Gisborne, Napier and Hastings were expected to exceed 30\u00b0C on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The West Coast was likely to receive showers on Saturday, with more substantial rain arriving in the west and south of the South Island on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">This band of rain was forecast to move north on Monday, weakening as it travelled, while the North Island remained dry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The South Island faced a more changeable weekend outlook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">MetService issued a strong wind watch for Southland, Otago and the Canterbury High Country south of Aoraki Mount Cook on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Gusts of up to 100km\/h were forecast, especially inland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Northwesterly winds were expected to drive up temperatures for eastern regions, with Christchurch, Ashburton and Oamaru all forecast to reach 30\u00b0C on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">A MetService heat alert was in place for Oamaru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Saturday was expected to be more temperate in these regions, before the northwesterly returned on Sunday, bringing the heat back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">MetService meteorologist Michael Pawley said Saturday would be the pick of the days in the South Island: \u201cPerfect timing for runners to complete the Kepler Challenge and be off the mountain before the rain rolls in overnight.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most regions were expected to have sunny conditions this weekend, especially in the North Island as high pressure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50749,2840,50374,74,95,3806,2082,3191,2514,9322,109274,20591,32033,111,43,139,529,69,17695,29461,6560,19875,6211,4998,15391,11587],"class_list":["post-168045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-30c","tag-across","tag-active","tag-after","tag-and","tag-east","tag-for","tag-heat","tag-island","tag-lightning","tag-lowpressure","tag-metservice","tag-moved","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-outlook","tag-overhead","tag-rain","tag-swept","tag-system","tag-weather","tag-wild","tag-yesterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168045","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=168045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}