{"id":389702,"date":"2026-04-21T01:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389702\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T01:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:59:11","slug":"weather-live-highway-washed-out-flights-cancelled-as-rain-wind-hit-wellington-wairarapa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389702\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather live: Highway washed out, flights cancelled as rain, wind hit Wellington, Wairarapa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow updates in our live blog above.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington and Wairarapa have spent the night under a red heavy rain warning, with downpours expected to continue.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington was hit by widespread, damaging floods and landslides on overnight on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are urging lower North Island residents to stay off the roads and evacuate if they feel unsafe as the rain continues.<\/p>\n<p>MetService said with continued rain over several days there was a possible threat to life from dangerous river conditions, significant flooding and slips.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the latest with RNZ&#8217;s liveblog at the top of this page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 updates in our live blog above. Wellington and Wairarapa have spent the night under a red heavy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389703,"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-389702","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\/389702","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=389702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}