{"id":169281,"date":"2025-12-05T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169281\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:02:09","slug":"heatwave-on-east-coast-as-metservice-issues-alerts-for-hawkes-bay-and-gisborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169281\/","title":{"rendered":"Heatwave on East Coast as MetService issues alerts for Hawke\u2019s Bay and Gisborne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Moving further south and the dry conditions continue despite early cloudy conditions from Taranaki through Whanganui and down to Wellington, but this should clear by the afternoon. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A warm weekend is in store for Auckland and much of the North Island. Photo \/ Alex Burton\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A warm weekend is in store for Auckland and much of the North Island. Photo \/ Alex Burton<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">A high of 21C is expected in Wellington, but cloud should be returning in the evening alongside strong northwesterlies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The South Island will be hit by most of the wet weather this weekend, particularly on the West Coast. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">A heavy rain warning has been placed on Fiordland for 26 hours from 11pm this evening to 1am Monday. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f\ud83c\udf35\u2668\ufe0f<br \/>Hawkes Bay and Tairawhiti\/Gisborne are set to collect daytime temperatures in the low 30s over the weekend, with the Bay of Plenty in a similar boat.<br \/>Heat alerts have being issued,  which you can learn about here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1wEzC1Srjb\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/1wEzC1Srjb<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FCKgphCSlo\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/FCKgphCSlo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MetService NZ (@MetService) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetService\/status\/1996748240944091574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Up to 240mm of rain is expected in the region during this period, with peak rates of up to 30mm\/h expected Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">MetService has warned streams and rivers could rise rapidly and surface flooding, slips and difficult driving conditions are possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">On Sunday, the fine weather continues for the North Island while the South Island continues to be hit with heavy wet weather in the west and a few spots of rain elsewhere. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Moving in to Monday, some isolated inland showers might appear in the North Island while rain in the South Island starts to spread north and clear in the south. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moving further south and the dry conditions continue despite early cloudy conditions from Taranaki through Whanganui and down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18086,95,806,1561,1558,11586,3806,2082,14724,12506,305,1976,3191,24629,2514,18087,1452,20591,111,43,139,529,69,90,17711,1240,4998,6123,66367],"class_list":["post-169281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-alerts","tag-and","tag-as","tag-bay","tag-been","tag-coast","tag-east","tag-for","tag-further","tag-gisborne","tag-have","tag-hawkes","tag-heat","tag-heatwave","tag-island","tag-issued","tag-issues","tag-metservice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-parts","tag-south","tag-weather","tag-while","tag-windy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169281","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=169281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}