{"id":345770,"date":"2026-03-24T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345770\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:56:09","slug":"weather-northland-set-for-41-hours-of-heavy-rain-red-weather-warnings-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345770\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather: Northland set for 41 hours of heavy rain; red weather warnings possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Meteorologist Silvia Martino told the Herald rain would start spreading south into Northland this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe rain starts to get heavy in the evening and it really is a long period of heavy rain for them,\u201d she said, warning of consistent rain \u201cfor a couple of days\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">MetService said the heaviest rain was likely in the upper North Island, especially from Northland to western Bay of Plenty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDownpours, flooding, and slips are possible on Thursday and Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Between 130 and 200mm of rain is forecast to fall across Northland, Martino said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIn the northern and eastern parts that are most exposed, up to 250mm is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">A heavy rain warning is forecast to come into effect for Northland from 4pm until 9am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udfe0\ud83d\udfe1Several Watches have been issued for Heavy Rain, as well as an Orange Warning for Northland, which has a Moderate chance of being upgraded to a Red Warning<\/p>\n<p>Wind Watches are also in place for Northland and Auckland for easterly to northeasterly gusts approaching severe gale <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/leZDsjeCDV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/leZDsjeCDV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MetService NZ (@MetService) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetService\/status\/2036210766937006485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Heavy rain warnings are also forecast to come into force for Great Barrier Island and the Coromandel Peninsula from early tomorrow morning until Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Martino said the rain would begin to move across Auckland today; however, the heaviest rain would drench the city tomorrow and into Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">A heavy rain watch has been forecast for Auckland from 4am tomorrow until 3pm Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">There is a high chance the watch would be upgraded to a warning, MetService said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">A strong wind watch is forecast to come into effect for Northland from 6pm until 3am Friday and for Auckland, including Great Barrier Island, from 6am tomorrow until 9am Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">The wet weather will continue to spread southward tomorrow, with the Coromandel and Bay of Plenty set to be drenched in the morning, Martino said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A big weather event on the way! \u2601\ufe0f \ud83c\udf0a \ud83c\udf27\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf00 A deep low-pressure system currently located south-west of New Caledonia, gradually tracks south. The system will not only bring heavy rain and strong winds to parts of New Zealand, but waves will also rise. <\/p>\n<p>So, expect heavy swells\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OHYDdhvV6l\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OHYDdhvV6l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MetService NZ (@MetService) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetService\/status\/2036248160763519031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Heavy rain and strong winds will also affect parts of the South Island, especially for Tasman and the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">The powerful winds were forecast to bring heavy swells to coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cExpect heavy swells with heights exceeding 4m to affect coastal areas of the North Island from Wednesday night,\u201d MetService said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLater in the week, big waves will affect the South Island, with swell heights possibly exceeding 6m, especially in the western coastal areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meteorologist Silvia Martino told the Herald rain would start spreading south into Northland this afternoon. \u201cThe rain starts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35025,20206,124,6097,2082,6561,6559,11551,2514,18087,111,43,139,529,1067,69,1118,17398,6560,15406,1551,5257,25448,33210,4998],"class_list":["post-345770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-35025","tag-bear","tag-could","tag-down","tag-for","tag-gales","tag-heavy","tag-hours","tag-island","tag-issued","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-possible","tag-rain","tag-red","tag-set","tag-significant","tag-upper","tag-warnings","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345770","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=345770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}