{"id":245621,"date":"2026-01-22T05:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245621\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T05:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:49:07","slug":"weather-cooler-but-drier-weekend-forecast-for-upper-north-island-following-tropical-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245621\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather: Cooler but drier weekend forecast for upper North Island following tropical storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">The drier weather is forecast to be in the Bay of Plenty, which will not get as many showers as the west coast of Northland and Auckland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">With the change in wind direction would come cooler temperatures, said Law. <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Today\u2019s highs in Auckland and Northland of 25C or 26C will be swapped with peaks of 19C and 20C throughout the weekend, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI think compared to the warm air mass that we had, which brought all that heavy rainfall, it\u2019s a cooler-feeling air mass as we go through towards the weekend.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Roads <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Many Aucklanders hoping to head away for their long weekend might have some trouble accessing popular holiday destinations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Parts of the Coromandel are still cut off and partially inundated following the heavy rain which battered the region. <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Several roads remain closed because of flooding and slips, including parts of State Highway 25 between Waihi and Coromandel Town. <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">In the Gisborne Region, severe weather has shut SH35 between Tolaga Bay and P\u014dtaka, while flooding and slips have closed SH2 between Matawai and Ormond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The drier weather is forecast to be in the Bay of Plenty, which will not get as many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3013,8278,50607,143625,19338,5504,2082,5616,2514,111,43,139,529,69,6695,143627,544,673,143626,1961,19030,25448,4998,4767],"class_list":["post-245621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-but","tag-conditions","tag-cooler","tag-drier","tag-expect","tag-following","tag-for","tag-forecast","tag-island","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-regions","tag-respite","tag-some","tag-storm","tag-stormaffected","tag-this","tag-tropical","tag-upper","tag-weather","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245621","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=245621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}