{"id":344745,"date":"2026-03-24T04:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/344745\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:27:08","slug":"orange-heavy-rain-warnings-issued-for-parts-of-north-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/344745\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange heavy rain warnings issued for parts of North Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAn orange heavy rain warning is in place for Northland.
\nPhoto: MetService\/Screenshot\n<\/p>\n

Some heavy rain watches forecasted for the Upper North Island have been upgraded to an orange heavy rain warning.<\/p>\n

The heavy rain watch which was in place for Northland<\/a> is now an orange warning from 7pm Wednesday until 9am Friday.<\/p>\n

The chance of wet weather due to a deep subtropical low has now also spread with a heavy rain watch issued for other parts of the Upper North Island including Auckland.<\/p>\n

Northland is set to get around 130 to 200 mm of rain but Metservice have said up to 250mm is possible about the northern and eastern areas.<\/p>\n

Peaks rates of 20 to 40mm of rain an hour are possible around the north and east of Northland from Thursday afternoon through to Friday morning with a moderate chance of upgrading to a red warning.<\/p>\n

The area is also under a strong wind watch with east to northeast winds possibly approaching severe gale in exposed places.<\/p>\n

Other parts of the Upper North Island are under a heavy rain watch from Thursday including Auckland, Bay of Plenty west of Whakatane, Coromandel Peninsula and Great Barrier Island.<\/p>\n

A strong wind watch is in place for Auckland including Great Barrier Island from Thursday to Friday.<\/p>\n

Both wind and rain watches are set to be in place for between 30 to 42 hours in most regions.<\/p>\n

In the South Island Tasman west of Motueka is under a heavy rain watch from Thursday until Friday.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An orange heavy rain warning is in place for Northland. Photo: MetService\/Screenshot Some heavy rain watches forecasted for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-344745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344745","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=344745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}