{"id":213372,"date":"2026-01-02T15:31:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213372\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:31:43","slug":"quite-heavy-in-localised-areas-more-rain-on-the-way-for-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213372\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Quite heavy in localised areas’: More rain on the way for New Year’s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFestival goers at Rhythm and Vines are off to a soggy start after the region was wiped with heavy rain.
\nPhoto: Lucy Parkinson\n<\/p>\n

Hundreds of households in the North Island are still out of power after yesterday’s wild weather.<\/p>\n

The affected areas include the Coromandel Peninsula, Waikato, Taranaki, Palmerston North, and Horowhenua.<\/p>\n

Thirty-nine properties in Pirinoa, a coastal community in Wairarapa, are also affected.<\/p>\n

Electra, which provides power in the K\u0101piti and Horowhenua districts, encourages people to stay safe and look after one another.<\/p>\n

Much of the country is in for another rainy day<\/a> on Wednesday, after severe wind and rain battered the North Island and upper South Island.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s wild weather<\/a> downed trees and powerlines, causing road closures and widespread power cuts.<\/p>\n

MetService meteorologist Alec Holden said a calmer day was in store, but showers were still forecast for both islands.<\/p>\n

“It does look like they could be quite heavy in localised areas all the way up from Northland in a seatbelt down through the spine of the North Island all the way to the bottom of the North Island.”<\/p>\n

A heavy rain warning is in place for the ranges of Tasman District west of Motueka from 6am Wednesday, heading into Thursday. Thunderstorms are also possible.<\/p>\n

MetService predicted 100-130 mm of rain for the region, with peak rates of 10-25 mm\/h on Wednesday morning, and again from Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Festival goers at Rhythm and Vines are off to a soggy start after the region was wiped with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208009,"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-213372","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\/213372","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=213372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}