{"id":388335,"date":"2026-04-20T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388335\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:46:08","slug":"heavy-rain-forecast-for-hawkes-bay-and-tararua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388335\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain forecast for Hawke\u2019s Bay and Tararua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Rainfall of 10-13mm was recorded in the Napier-Hastings area, where conditions were clearing at about midday, when rain was falling in parts of the Tararua district, a MetService meteorologist said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">A Tararua District Council spokesman said the heaviest rain was predicted at night. We could see heavy, localised rainfall anywhere across the district, so its important people stay prepared, especially in areas that have experienced flooding before. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re sharing this information to help you be alert and prepared, just in case. We could see heavy, localised rainfall anywhere across the district. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019ve activated our Incident Management Team, which means we\u2019re closely monitoring conditions and are ready to respond if needed. Our roading teams are out checking and clearing drains. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhile we may have come through recent events relatively lightly, the next one could be very different, so, we\u2019re asking people to stay alert and prepared, as it only takes one event to cause disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rainfall of 10-13mm was recorded in the Napier-Hastings area, where conditions were clearing at about midday, when rain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,1561,1558,141629,2082,5616,72763,305,1976,6559,18087,20591,130,1304,111,43,139,69,6560,29421,1865,33210,3604,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-388335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-bay","11":"tag-been","12":"tag-deluge","13":"tag-for","14":"tag-forecast","15":"tag-forecasting","16":"tag-have","17":"tag-hawkes","18":"tag-heavy","19":"tag-issued","20":"tag-metservice","21":"tag-more","22":"tag-morning","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-newzealand","26":"tag-nz","27":"tag-rain","28":"tag-tararua","29":"tag-today","30":"tag-warnings","31":"tag-watches","32":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388335","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=388335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}