{"id":35711,"date":"2025-09-21T23:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35711\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T23:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:38:07","slug":"wild-weather-warnings-heavy-rain-for-taranaki-and-tararua-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35711\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild weather warnings: Heavy rain for Taranaki and Tararua Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">Severe gales rattled both Wellington and Marlborough overnight with gusts peaking at 133km\/h at Mt Kaukau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">Wellington, Wairarapa south of Greytown and the Marlborough Sounds all remain under a strong orange wind warning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">Firefighters responded to one weather-related callout when a tree was uprooted at a property in Eket\u0101huna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">The wild weather comes after a severe red wind warning was issued for the Canterbury region, with much of the South Island also under weather warnings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">Hundreds lost power, trees and lampposts were blown over, and people were asked to stay at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">A major highway along the  West Coast also remains shut because of a slip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">State Highway 6, between Lower Buller Gorge and Punakaiki, closed overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists are asked to detour via the inland route of State Highway 69 and State Highway 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Severe gales rattled both Wellington and Marlborough overnight with gusts peaking at 133km\/h at Mt Kaukau. Wellington, Wairarapa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,2082,6559,111,43,139,69,6560,29544,16715,29421,33210,4998,15391],"class_list":{"0":"post-35711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-and","9":"tag-for","10":"tag-heavy","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-rain","16":"tag-range","17":"tag-taranaki","18":"tag-tararua","19":"tag-warnings","20":"tag-weather","21":"tag-wild"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35711","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=35711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}