{"id":375458,"date":"2026-04-12T04:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375458\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:20:08","slug":"govt-gives-briefing-on-cyclone-vaianu-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375458\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt gives briefing on Cyclone Vaianu response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency Management Minister Mark Mitchell and Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown spoke from council offices in the city centre on the Cyclone Vaianu response.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell was heading to the Bay of Plenty later today.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclone Vaianu is continuing to move south and is expected to bring severe winds and heavy rain to parts of the North Island.<\/p>\n<p>Wind gusts of up to 120km\/h were recorded in Northland overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands remain without power across the Bay of Plenty and Waikato.<\/p>\n<p>States of emergency have been declared for Waikato, including the Coromandel, Northland, Western Bay of Plenty and Hawke&#8217;s Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The whole North Island is under some level of weather warning, with the Coromandel Peninsula, Bay of Plenty and Great Barrier Island under red alerts.<\/p>\n<p>MetService warned of a possible &#8220;threat to life&#8221; in these areas, with the possibility of falling trees, landslips and flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency Management Minister Mark Mitchell and Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown spoke from council offices in the city centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69,3393],"class_list":{"0":"post-375458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-weather-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375458","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=375458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}