{"id":440411,"date":"2026-05-22T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440411\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:29:09","slug":"weekend-weather-outlook-milder-nights-sunny-spells-and-only-brief-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440411\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend weather outlook: milder nights, sunny spells and only brief showers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Overall, Martino said the weather would remain fairly calm across most regions despite a few passing showers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSome showers about, bit cloudy, bit cool, but on the whole, [a] pretty decent weekend and everyone should see some spots of sunshine in between.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Temperatures will be heating up as well, with more moderate nights and warmer daytime highs expected across much of the North Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFor a lot of places, it is a bit warmer than we\u2019ve been seeing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis last week has been pretty chilly. We\u2019ve been seeing frosts about, some severe frosts for inland parts of the South Island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">For most of the weekend up north, overnight temperatures will be milder than earlier this week, with some places expected to reach 20C during the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Northland will be climbing to 14 or 15C, while highs across the rest of the North Island will sit comfortably in the high teens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">The South Island will be a \u201cbit cooler\u201d, Martino said, with some frosts lingering inland, but many parts of the island would still enjoy much warmer daytime highs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLots of places still managing to get up into the teens, some even the higher teens for the highs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">While there will be some waves for the upper North Island, Martino expects they will not be particularly noticeable to anyone apart from keen surfers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSince I don\u2019t imagine there\u2019ll be that many people out on the beach, [the surf] probably wouldn\u2019t be too obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overall, Martino said the weather would remain fairly calm across most regions despite a few passing showers. \u201cSome&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,95,64570,15458,29847,139869,224867,15219,111,43,139,11550,529,69,2847,17695,6695,122657,117811,40653,151867,166,38666,4998,4767,102,80],"class_list":["post-440411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-and","tag-brief","tag-cards","tag-handful","tag-mild","tag-milder","tag-mostly","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nights","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-only","tag-outlook","tag-regions","tag-scattered","tag-settled","tag-showers","tag-spells","tag-sunny","tag-temperatures","tag-weather","tag-weekend","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440411","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=440411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}