{"id":303292,"date":"2026-02-26T14:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/303292\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:26:13","slug":"mondays-temperature-drop-latest-on-tropical-low-more-high-pressure-in-early-march-weatherwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/303292\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday\u2019s temperature drop, latest on tropical low, + more high pressure in early March | WeatherWatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cold front is today moving up the South Island, falling apart over the North Island going into Friday\/Saturday. On Sunday an even colder change will move up NZ, dropping temperatures going into Monday and making for a cooler\/colder Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>While all of this is happening a tropical low will be exiting the tropics, and likely will remain north-east of NZ as it passes by early next week. For now it poses no real threat to New Zealand, but is one to keep an eye on.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, warmer, drier, weather moves back in as high pressure grows again \u2013 lifting temperatures following the colder\/cooler start to the week.<\/p>\n<p>+ We have a 7 day rainfall map to make sense of it all.<\/p>\n<p>**SMALL ERROR** \u2013 Please note on the Monday map Phil accidently says \u201ceastern Northland\u201d instead of \u201cwestern Northland\u201d with regards to where the driest weather should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cold front is today moving up the South Island, falling apart over the North Island going into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-303292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303292","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=303292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}