{"id":429483,"date":"2026-05-15T20:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429483\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:20:08","slug":"frosty-below-zero-weekend-tipped-for-parts-of-new-zealand-ahead-of-rain-as-wet-change-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429483\/","title":{"rendered":"Frosty below-zero weekend tipped for parts of New Zealand ahead of rain as wet change looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEarly to mid next week, a front will eventually make its way onto the country, perhaps by late Wednesday or Thursday,\u201d Lynden said. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"This weekend is set to be chilly, with several regions expected to plunge to icy, below-zero lows. Photo \/ File \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>This weekend is set to be chilly, with several regions expected to plunge to icy, below-zero lows. Photo \/ File <\/p>\n<p>Chilly temperatures <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Wintry temperatures are set to continue, with places such as Alexandra dropping to -2C. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNow that we\u2019re heading into the cooler part of the year, we can expect some cooler temperatures in the mornings with quite a few areas, especially the South Island, as you may expect, reaching the very low single digits and perhaps even the negatives,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Lynden said places like Alexandra, Twizel and central areas were set to be the coldest this weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">While the North Island is unlikely to be quite so cold, he said places like Taumarunui were expected to get to low single digits today and tomorrow.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Auckland will get a low of 7C today, Wellington will drop to 9C, and Christchurch will drop to 1C. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Meanwhile, Dunedin will drop to 5C and Queenstown will sink to 1C. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEarly to mid next week, a front will eventually make its way onto the country, perhaps by late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3017,806,9218,220035,12974,62437,57023,5346,2082,220034,20733,146142,12814,32854,117,111,43,139,1536,69,1118,17711,54323,6560,6695,13109,1961,23368,4998,686,4767,66366,102,80],"class_list":["post-429483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-ahead","tag-as","tag-before","tag-belowzero","tag-change","tag-chilly","tag-clearer","tag-expected","tag-for","tag-frosty","tag-gives","tag-icy","tag-looms","tag-lows","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-parts","tag-plunge","tag-rain","tag-regions","tag-several","tag-this","tag-tipped","tag-weather","tag-week","tag-weekend","tag-wet","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429483","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=429483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}