{"id":317452,"date":"2026-03-07T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/317452\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:38:10","slug":"heavy-rain-for-southland-otago-daily-times-online-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/317452\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain for Southland | Otago Daily Times Online News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/metservice_0.jpg\" width=\"403\" height=\"281\" alt=\"MetService issued heavy rain watches for parts of the South Island. Image: MetService\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MetService issued heavy rain watches for parts of the South Island. Image: MetService<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain is on the way for parts of the lower South Island.<\/p>\n<p>MetService said today the slow-moving front was expected to bring heavy rain to Fiordland and inland Southland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The watches are for Fiordland, about and north of Doubtful Sound, from 4am until 9pm tomorrow; and for Southland from 7am to 7pm tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>These watches may become warnings, MetService said.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier watch for Westland, about and south of Haast, has been lifted as the threat of rainfall amounts reaching warning criteria has passed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MetService issued heavy rain watches for parts of the South Island. Image: MetService Heavy rain is on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-317452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317452","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=317452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}