{"id":284134,"date":"2026-02-14T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/284134\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:22:08","slug":"north-island-weather-new-deluge-underway-in-already-sodden-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/284134\/","title":{"rendered":"North Island weather: New deluge underway in already sodden regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe have a few orange warnings in place for East Bay of Plenty and \u014cp\u014dtiki, Gisborne, Tair\u0101whiti north of Tolaga Bay, and also Gisborne, Tair\u0101whiti south of Poverty Bay and the northeast of Hawke\u2019s Bay,\u201d Lynden said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere\u2019s also a heavy rain warning in place for inland Whanganui and Manawat\u016b tomorrow, so those orange rain warnings, we\u2019re expecting up to 160 millimetres in some of those places, particularly the one for Gisborne, Tair\u0101whiti south of Poverty Bay and the Wairoa District.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Heavy rain and wind is expected to batter eastern parts of the North Island. Photo \/ Niwa\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Heavy rain and wind is expected to batter eastern parts of the North Island. Photo \/ Niwa<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">He expected the heaviest rain to stick to the east, but wet weather to also make its way up through the Waikato and down into the South Island, particularly in Marlborough, the Kaik\u014dura Coast and possibly northern Canterbury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">A low pressure system sitting off the east of Hawke\u2019s Bay is driving these downpours, and heavy winds further down the North Island, and causing rainfall to be heavier in the region compared to the last few days. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">Niwa weather described this as a \u201cdeepening low\u201d which is set to create \u201chazardous conditions across parts of the North Island\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Torrential rain has already devastated the \u014ctorohanga District this weekend, closing roads, washing out bridges, and triggering slips and floodwaters. Photo \/ Mike Scott\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Torrential rain has already devastated the \u014ctorohanga District this weekend, closing roads, washing out bridges, and triggering slips and floodwaters. Photo \/ Mike Scott<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are expecting [the low pressure system] to actually remain there for quite a long period of time,\u201d Lynden said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSo the heaviest belt of rain will be on the Sunday, but moving forward through the week, we are expecting drizzly, showery conditions to really continue as it sits to the east of the country right through until say Tuesday, Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">Conditions should start to improve after the middle of next week, but Lynden couldn\u2019t confirm if hot summer weather was on the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m not going to commit to saying that in a week\u2019s time we\u2019ll have fabulous sunny weather, but certainly I would expect people will see some sun for the remainder of their summer, but you know, it\u2019s hard to commit to saying anything too substantial there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe have a few orange warnings in place for East Bay of Plenty and \u014cp\u014dtiki, Gisborne, Tair\u0101whiti north&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33846,6127,11586,141629,3806,2550,15980,139158,37232,20557,78,2514,1304,117,111,43,139,529,69,35481,6560,6695,142662,147840,131,1961,58455,4998,686,102],"class_list":["post-284134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-along","tag-already","tag-coast","tag-deluge","tag-east","tag-even","tag-fallen","tag-hazardous","tag-heavier","tag-hitting","tag-in","tag-island","tag-morning","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-particularly","tag-rain","tag-regions","tag-soaked","tag-sodden","tag-than","tag-this","tag-underway","tag-weather","tag-week","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284134","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=284134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}