{"id":343136,"date":"2026-03-23T03:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343136\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T03:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:40:07","slug":"northland-weather-rain-strong-wind-forecast-from-wednesday-for-50-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343136\/","title":{"rendered":"Northland weather: Rain, strong wind forecast from Wednesday for 50 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Although impact could be widespread, Burrows explained northeasterly winds were pushing straight onto the region\u2019s east coast. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cUnusual\u201d swell heights over 4m could batter the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOften that northeast shore off Northland is quite protected &#8230; here it\u2019s quite exposed with that low pushing south,\u201d Burrows said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThey\u2019re pretty large as well with this system &#8230; you don\u2019t often see waves of that height for that region.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Burrows said there was time to get prepared, check in with neighbours, and secure any loose items before the weather hit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Brodie Stone covers crime and emergency for the Northern Advocate. She has spent most of her life in Whang\u0101rei and is passionate about delving into issues that matter to Northlanders and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although impact could be widespread, Burrows explained northeasterly winds were pushing straight onto the region\u2019s east coast. \u201cUnusual\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13212,682,183056,135781,5346,2082,5616,71,42,11551,130,43,1067,11225,13084,6560,381,18835,131,40,38,41,39,4998,1680,10000],"class_list":["post-343136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-13212","tag-being","tag-douse","tag-encouraged","tag-expected","tag-for","tag-forecast","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-hours","tag-more","tag-news","tag-northland","tag-northlanders","tag-prepare","tag-rain","tag-region","tag-strong","tag-than","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weather","tag-wednesday","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343136","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=343136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}