Heavy rain is set to lash parts of the South Island from Wednesday as a front moves north, with further severe weather likely later in the week.<\/p>\n
MetService has issued an orange-level heavy rain warning for the ranges of the Westland District from Wednesday evening into Thursday with up to 250mm expected to fall.<\/p>\n
The headwaters of Canterbury and Otago’s lakes and rivers were under a heavy rain watch, alongside Fiordland north of Doubtful Sound.<\/p>\n
“Periods of heavy rain, and amounts may approach warning criteria. Another period of heavy rain is expected from Friday afternoon,” the forecaster said.<\/p>\n
MetService meteorologist Braydon White said the wetter side of autumn was “back with a bang”.<\/p>\n
“While we\u2019ve been enjoying the light winds and lack of rain for the last while, these crisp still mornings are about to end.”<\/p>\n
Rain would set in for the South Island’s west from Wednesday, while northern parts of both islands would start to see showers throughout the day.<\/p>\n
Thursday brings rain to most of the country, with western and northern parts experiencing some heavier bursts.<\/p>\n
White said the wetter weather would bring “much warmer” temperatures.<\/p>\n
“Overnight temperatures will be as much as 15C warmer than we’ve had recently, with minimums in the mid-to-upper teens widespread across the North Island.”<\/p>\n
More heavy rain was likely for the west of the South Island on Friday, he added, with strong winds moving through south and central areas as a second low approaches.<\/p>\n
“The back edge of this system brings a change to strong southwesterlies as we move into the weekend, with large swells possible for western coastlines.”<\/p>\n
Full list of weather warnings and watches<\/p>\n
Heavy Rain Warning – Orange<\/p>\n
Ranges of the Westland District – 21 hours from 9pm Wednesday to 6pm Thursday<\/p>\n
Heavy Rain Watch<\/p>\n
Headwaters of the Canterbury Lakes and Rivers – 15 hours from 3am to 6pm Thursday<\/p>\n
Headwaters of the Otago Lakes and Rivers – 13 hours from 9pm Wednesday to 10am Thursday<\/p>\n
Fiordland north of Doubtful Sound – 18 hours from 3pm Wednesday to 9am Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rain is set to lash parts of the South Island from Wednesday as a front moves north,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,15488,40,38,41,39,3393,1241],"class_list":["post-412297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-southland","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weather-news","tag-west-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412297","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=412297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}