{"id":345120,"date":"2026-03-24T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345120\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:56:09","slug":"orange-heavy-rain-warning-for-northland-up-to-250mm-of-rain-flooding-risk-strong-winds-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345120\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange heavy rain warning for Northland: Up to 250mm of rain, flooding risk, strong winds forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Magwala said the orange warning would be upgraded<\/a> to red if there was \u201chigh impact\u201d. <\/p>\n

Streams and rivers could rise rapidly, and surface flooding, slips and difficult driving conditions were possible. <\/p>\n

A strong wind watch is also in place for Northland from 6pm tomorrow until 6am Friday, with a moderate chance of upgrade to a warning. <\/p>\n

East to northeast winds could approach severe gale in exposed places, with MetService warning yesterday that swells could reach 4m on the northeast coast.<\/p>\n

Meteorologist Alanna Burrows explained northeasterly winds were pushing straight on to the region\u2019s east coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re pretty large as well with this system … you don\u2019t often see waves of that height for that region,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Burrows urged people to prepare by checking in on their neighbours, clearing any gutters and securing loose items. <\/p>\n

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":"Magwala said the orange warning would be upgraded to red if there was \u201chigh impact\u201d. Streams and rivers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[183949,1558,19876,2082,5616,71,6559,11551,111,43,139,1067,69,1118,49042,21940,6560,34091,7192,18835,61,701,8238,810,1455,18980],"class_list":["post-345120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-250mm","tag-been","tag-flooding","tag-for","tag-forecast","tag-from","tag-heavy","tag-hours","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-orange","tag-placed","tag-rain","tag-rainfall","tag-risk","tag-strong","tag-to","tag-tomorrow","tag-under","tag-up","tag-warning","tag-winds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345120","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=345120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}