A warm, summery feeling experienced by parts of the South Island today will be short-lived, MetService says, as temperatures are set to plunge along the east coast.<\/p>\n
MetService meteorologist Katie Lyons told 1News the temperature change would be driven by a cold front from the southern ocean moving northward this evening.<\/p>\n
“It’ll move up and over the rest of the South Island today and tonight. That brings rain, but also in behind it brings plummeting temperatures,” she said. <\/p>\n
A yellow heavy rain watch was issued today for Fiordland about and north of Dusky Sound until 9pm tonight, and Southland until 7pm. <\/p>\n
Today Blenheim reached a high of 28C, while Christchurch got to 26C. <\/p>\n
Monday’s forecasted highs for those places were 17C and 15C, respectively, Lyons said. <\/p>\n
Highs for other places including Invercargill and Timaru were forecast to be “around the 14C or 15C mark”, Lyons said.<\/p>\n
“It’ll be about two days that people will feel these colder temperatures, maybe two to three.<\/p>\n
“Then things will start to return back to sort of more normal climatological average temperatures, [with] highs in the low 20s.”<\/p>\n
The cold front may also hit lower parts of the North Island’s east coast including Napier, Hastings and Gisborne, but with much less intensity, she said. <\/p>\n
“It’ll lose a bit of steam as it does \u2014 which is always the way with these cold fronts from the Southern Ocean, they lose their punch a bit.”<\/p>\n
Seesawing temperatures were common in Autumn, Lyons said. <\/p>\n
Kiwis could expect further cold fronts to make it further up the country than they did during summer.<\/p>\n
“It’s just going to be more of this as we get towards winter and these temperatures start to drop.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A warm, summery feeling experienced by parts of the South Island today will be short-lived, MetService says, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,1080,16256,111,43,139,69,3393],"class_list":{"0":"post-318832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-christchurch-canterbury","9":"tag-dunedin-otago","10":"tag-marlborough","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-weather-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318832","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=318832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}