{"id":221973,"date":"2026-01-07T19:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/221973\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:57:16","slug":"weather-scorching-temperatures-sweep-new-zealand-heat-alerts-likely-for-hawkes-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/221973\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather: Scorching temperatures sweep New Zealand, heat alerts likely for Hawke\u2019s Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">MetService predicts temperatures will reach the mid-30s on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHastings is currently forecast for 37C,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI would say it will be quite likely we will be issuing heat alerts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">In Auckland, temperatures are forecast to reach into the high 20s during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201c[It will be] 28C, 29C. It\u2019s still going to be quite hot. Getting near 30C is pretty impressive for Auckland,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency Hawke\u2019s Bay assistant fire commander Jason Hill said firefighters were concerned about the Napier-Heretaunga [Hastings] area, through to Central Hawke\u2019s Bay and northern Te Rerenga areas.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Firefighters battled a scrub fire on a hillside in Fernhill, Hastings, last month. There are fears of more fires this weekend with high temperatures forecast. Photos \/ Glenn Thomson\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Firefighters battled a scrub fire on a hillside in Fernhill, Hastings, last month. There are fears of more fires this weekend with high temperatures forecast. Photos \/ Glenn Thomson<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere\u2019s an extremely high potential that if any fire breaks out, it could be quite serious and extremely fast-moving and fast spreading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The Hawke\u2019s Bay public were being \u201ca little bit fooled\u201d by the green tinge from rain before New Year\u2019s Eve, but there was a lot of dry grass and scrub around, Hill said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere\u2019s a high chance that any fire that breaks out across the weekend could be extremely difficult to control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">White told the Herald a front would push onto the South Island, bringing heavy rain to Fiordland and southern Westland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">MetService has issued a heavy rain watch for the western areas of Fiordland about and north of Doubtful Sound, and Westland south of the Haast River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">It is forecast to begin at 2pm and last until 6am tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe heavy rain will spill over a bit to places like Invercargill, Dunedin, and maybe Christchurch could see a few showers as well,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MetService predicts temperatures will reach the mid-30s on Sunday. \u201cHastings is currently forecast for 37C,\u201d White said. \u201cI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133276,18086,1561,1550,8278,2079,2082,5616,1976,3191,120,5969,117,111,43,139,69,19328,1519,124153,2735,6564,38666,4998,80],"class_list":["post-221973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-37c","tag-alerts","tag-bay","tag-centre","tag-conditions","tag-fire","tag-for","tag-forecast","tag-hawkes","tag-heat","tag-likely","tag-much","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reach","tag-risks","tag-scorching","tag-store","tag-sweep","tag-temperatures","tag-weather","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221973","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=221973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}