{"id":224552,"date":"2026-01-09T06:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/224552\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T06:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:21:10","slug":"as-it-happened-heat-alerts-for-38c-for-in-parts-of-country-heavy-rain-and-gales-forecast-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/224552\/","title":{"rendered":"As it happened: Heat alerts for 38C for in parts of country, heavy rain and gales forecast elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures are forecast to top 30 degrees in many places, and heat alerts have been issued for Hastings, Napier, Whakat\u0101ne, Motueka, Blenheim and Kaik\u014dura.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency warned extreme heat came with heightened fire risk &#8211; particularly in Canterbury, Marlborough, Wairarapa, Hawke&#8217;s Bay, Tair\u0101whiti and Northland.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologist Devlin Lynden said remnants from Australia&#8217;s heatwave had arrived.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JV4MMR_oriental_parade_wellington_nz_1_2_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"oriental parade wellington nz-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: RNZ \/ Mark Papalii\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":"Temperatures are forecast to top 30 degrees in many places, and heat alerts have been issued for Hastings,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[48,47,156,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-224552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-podcasts","16":"tag-public-radio","17":"tag-radio-new-zealand","18":"tag-rnz","19":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224552","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=224552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}