Several other warnings were in place for areas further north, including the Gisborne\/Tair\u0101whiti area.<\/p>\n
The Hawke\u2019s Bay Regional Council said in a social media post staff and contractors were on standby across the region. <\/p>\n
As a precaution, the council was pre-emptively opening the N\u016bhaka River, Waihoratuna Lagoon and Maraetotara River mouths, and improving existing outlets at Esk River and Te Ngarue Stream.<\/p>\n
The council was also monitoring the Wairoa River, and is positioning a mobile pump on standby in Haumoana.<\/p>\n
It was warning \u201cit\u2019s a good time\u201d for people to check and clear drains and gutters to remove obstructions.<\/p>\n
Heavy swell warnings of waves rising to 6m were also issued for the bottom of the North Island on Friday.<\/p>\n
The warnings are for Wairarapa \u2013 Turakirae Head to Mataikona from 10pm Sunday to 2am Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cSoutherly combined waves rising to 6m Sunday evening, then easing below warning criteria overnight Monday or early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeak period 11-12s,\u201d MetService wrote in its warning issued just after 12.30pm today.<\/p>\n
Doug Laing is a Hawke\u2019s Bay Today reporter based in Napier, with more than 40 years\u2019 experience covering events and issues in Hawke\u2019s Bay, including the weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several other warnings were in place for areas further north, including the Gisborne\/Tair\u0101whiti area. The Hawke\u2019s Bay Regional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41242,12635,1561,682,15974,29717,1976,6559,1044,3025,111,43,139,69,6744,26953,6560,223,210,8238,16670,4767,102],"class_list":["post-282008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-alert","tag-area","tag-bay","tag-being","tag-emergency","tag-extends","tag-hawkes","tag-heavy","tag-management","tag-most","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-place","tag-precautions","tag-rain","tag-the","tag-through","tag-under","tag-watch","tag-weekend","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282008","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=282008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}