{"id":200984,"date":"2025-12-25T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T08:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/200984\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T08:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T08:18:08","slug":"severe-thunderstorm-warning-for-dunedin-region-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/200984\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorm warning for Dunedin region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766650688_38_4NB8V7Q_copyright_image_197037\" width=\"1050\" height=\"703\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n(File photo)<br \/>\nPhoto: 123RF\n<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people are without power in Mosgiel near Dunedin, and also in Southland.<\/p>\n<p>Very heavy rain, lightning and hail is bearing down on Dunedin and the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity provider Aurora said several hundred households are currently without power in Mosgiel. Their website estimates a restoration time of 10.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>In Southland, dozens of smaller scale outages have cut power to rural areas east of Invercargill and north of Gore.<\/p>\n<p>MetService earlier issued a severe thunderstorm warning over Dunedin and Clutha which has since been lifted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a0\ufe0f Warning Update \u26c8\ufe0f <\/p>\n<p>Severe Thunderstorm Warning &#8211; Clutha and Dunedin City<\/p>\n<p>Severe Thunderstorm Watch &#8211; North Otago, Dunedin, Clutha<\/p>\n<p>More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VDYb51QBlL\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/VDYb51QBlL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OtagoCDEM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@OtagoCDEM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nztaos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@nztaos<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OtagoRC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@OtagoRC<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DnCityCouncil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@DnCityCouncil<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2wpRkW3wKT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2wpRkW3wKT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MetService NZ (@MetService) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetService\/status\/2004057767158681803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JVTY9V_Screenshot_2025_12_25_191320_png\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1012\" alt=\"Lightning strikes a power pole in Mosgiel on Thursday night.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nLightning strikes a power pole in Mosgiel on Thursday night.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied\n<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File photo) Photo: 123RF Hundreds of people are without power in Mosgiel near Dunedin, and also in Southland.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-200984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200984","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=200984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}