{"id":185913,"date":"2025-12-16T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185913\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:26:08","slug":"thunderstorm-watch-issued-for-parts-of-otago-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185913\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm watch issued for parts of Otago, Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A thunderstorm watch has been issued for parts of Otago and Canterbury today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The watch period is between 1pm and 9pm today for the areas of Canterbury Plains, Canterbury High Country, North Otago, Dunedin, and Clutha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">MetService said the thunderstorms are expected in \u201cmany parts of the South Island today\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">They bring the risk of localised heavy rain between 10 to 25 mm\/h, and hail between 5 and 20mm in diameter.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/K5C3GHBPIZDDJEKDMBFOT5FTRI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">(Source: MetService)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">MetService said thunderstorms could develop from early afternoon, and could produce large accumulations of hail, or hail greater than 20mm in diameter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cLarge hail can cause significant damage to crops, orchards, vines, glasshouses, and vehicles, as well as make driving conditions hazardous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The next update on the thunderstorm activity would be provided at 8pm, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A thunderstorm watch has been issued for parts of Otago and Canterbury today. The watch period is between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,1080,42,43,40,38,41,39,3393],"class_list":["post-185913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weather-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185913","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=185913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}