{"id":408702,"date":"2026-05-02T18:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/408702\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:05:22","slug":"weather-metservice-warns-of-cold-and-crispy-weekend-as-may-temperatures-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/408702\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather: MetService warns of \u2018cold and crispy\u2019 weekend as May temperatures drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">With the winter sports season starting for some this weekend, people are being reminded to not just pack active gear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPeople should be wearing their beanies, scarves, gloves, woolly socks before they head out,\u201d said Parkes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Twizel in the South Island takes the cake for today\u2019s minimum temperature with -1C, while Timaru and Queenstown are at 2C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">In the North Island, Taumarunui and Whanganui\u2019s lowest temperatures are 5C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Light showers are possible for eastern Northland and the mountain ranges of Fiordland until midday Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Auckland and Wellington dropped to between 10C and 11C overnight, while Christchurch plummeted to 4C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the winter sports season starting for some this weekend, people are being reminded to not just pack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,806,4509,210309,38402,2245,6276,42,7810,20591,1304,43,1118,210310,3271,4497,38666,1961,40,38,41,39,8218,4998,4767],"class_list":["post-408702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-and","tag-as","tag-cold","tag-crispy","tag-drop","tag-early","tag-gets","tag-headlines","tag-may","tag-metservice","tag-morning","tag-news","tag-of","tag-risers","tag-should","tag-start","tag-temperatures","tag-this","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-warns","tag-weather","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408702","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=408702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}