{"id":201752,"date":"2025-12-25T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/201752\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:57:07","slug":"severe-thunderstorm-watch-issued-for-bay-of-plenty-and-rotorua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/201752\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorm watch issued for Bay of Plenty and Rotorua"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thunderstorms were forecast to roll in across the region later this afternoon. Photo \/ Glenn Taylor\n<\/p>\n

A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for several regions across the upper North Island today, including Bay of Plenty, Rotorua and Coromandel Peninsula.<\/p>\n

MetService forecasters warn hazardous weather conditions are expected to develop this afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n

\n The watch was in place from 2pm to 8pm on Friday, December
\n 26, and covers Northland, Auckland, Great Barrier Island, the Coromandel Peninsula, the Bay of Plenty, and Rotorua.\n <\/p>\n

According to the advisory, a complex trough embedded in a moist, unstable air mass is moving eastwards across the region. <\/p>\n

This system was expected to bring a moderate risk of thunderstorms to the affected areas, along with heavy rain through the afternoon and evening, the MetService said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 25 Dec, 2025 08:07 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2840,95,1561,1558,22506,2082,42,8454,2514,18087,43,529,1118,48375,1562,6695,1327,13109,2848,69695,1865,40,38,41,39,25448,16670],"class_list":["post-201752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-across","tag-and","tag-bay","tag-been","tag-coromandel","tag-for","tag-headlines","tag-including","tag-island","tag-issued","tag-news","tag-north","tag-of","tag-peninsula","tag-plenty","tag-regions","tag-rotorua","tag-several","tag-severe","tag-thunderstorm","tag-today","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-upper","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201752","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=201752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}