Parts of the Canterbury High Country, Cook Strait and Wellington are in for severe northwesterly gales on Friday. <\/p>\n
The rain will ease as it moves north, but another \u201cmore active\u201d system from over the Tasman Sea moves onto New Zealand late Friday.<\/p>\n
Lyons said it will bring more rain to the North Island over the weekend.<\/p>\n
She said this was due to the terrain in the South Island. \u201cWhich is why we\u2019ve got the high potential of severe weather for those areas of the South Island.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it will be relatively quick-moving.\u201d<\/p>\n
Metservice wasn\u2019t too concerned about the first system for Auckland, but a second system could have more impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s lots of time for that feature to change and for our focus to change as well,\u201d Lyons said.<\/p>\n
Depending on the intensity of rainfall, she said, Metservice would issue warnings to the public.<\/p>\n
While the entire country is set to be hit with rainfall, warmer days follow in the second half of the week.<\/p>\n
Most parts of the country will see temperatures at or exceeding 20C from Wednesday, Metservice said.<\/p>\n
Christchurch and Gisborne are expected to have maximum temperatures of 23C.<\/p>\n
Malisha Kumar is a multimedia journalist based in Hamilton. She joined the Waikato Herald in 2023 after working for Radio 1XX in Whakat\u0101ne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parts of the Canterbury High Country, Cook Strait and Wellington are in for severe northwesterly gales on Friday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2840,50374,29816,3021,2516,124,2841,20209,1668,111151,15312,42,6559,2514,43,1536,6560,1240,6211,1961,40,38,41,39,1237,4998,686,1533,102,80],"class_list":["post-411592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-across","tag-active","tag-approaches","tag-bring","tag-concern","tag-could","tag-country","tag-entire","tag-front","tag-fronts","tag-greatest","tag-headlines","tag-heavy","tag-island","tag-news","tag-next","tag-rain","tag-south","tag-system","tag-this","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-two","tag-weather","tag-week","tag-will","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411592","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=411592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}