{"id":376906,"date":"2026-04-13T05:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/376906\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T05:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:40:09","slug":"risk-of-thunderstorms-hail-in-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/376906\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk of thunderstorms, hail in South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MetService is warning there is a moderate risk of thunderstorms bringing heavy rain and hail to the South this afternoon and evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A series of fronts are moving on to and over the South Island today, bringing cooler temperatures, the forecaster said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The far south of the Canterbury Plains, North Otago, Dunedin and Clutha, all face a moderate risk of thunderstorms for a time during this afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p>These thunderstorms may be accompanied by heavy rain of 10 to 20 mm\/h and small hail.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MetService is warning there is a moderate risk of thunderstorms bringing heavy rain and hail to the South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-376906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376906","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=376906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}