{"id":388476,"date":"2026-04-20T09:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388476\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:09:12","slug":"live-weather-state-of-emergency-in-wellington-as-more-rain-arrives-after-floods-slips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388476\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Weather: State of emergency in Wellington as more rain arrives after floods, slips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow the latest with RNZ’s liveblog above.<\/p>\n

A state of emergency has been declared in the Wellington region after it was hit with torrential rain.<\/a><\/p>\n

Heavy rain warnings in Wellington and Wairarapa have been upgraded to red until Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

MetService says the forecast rain presents a threat to life from dangerous river conditions, significant flooding and slips.<\/p>\n

Wellington Civil Defence Emergency Management (WCEM) said the declaration supports the response to ongoing severe weather, flooding and infrastructure impacts.<\/p>\n

It gives responders the powers and co-ordination needed to keep people safe, support evacuations where needed, and manage impacts, group controller Carrie McKenzie said.<\/p>\n

“The priority is life safety,” McKenzie said.<\/p>\n

“We are asking people to take this seriously, follow safety advice, and act early if they are in low-lying or flood-prone areas, which are those that have experienced multiple flooding events in recent years.”<\/p>\n

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There is an increased risk of surface flooding<\/a>, slips and rapidly rising rivers, with more rain forecast.<\/p>\n

WCEM is warning people Wellington residents in low-lying areas, or those of who have experience flooding events in the past, to go somewhere else for the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n

It encourages people to act quickly and not wait for official warnings if they think they need to evacuate.<\/p>\n

Follow the latest with RNZ’s liveblog at the top of the page.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow the latest with RNZ’s liveblog above. A state of emergency has been declared in the Wellington region…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-388476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388476","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=388476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}