{"id":461006,"date":"2026-06-04T18:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/461006\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:13:18","slug":"orange-warnings-as-downpours-thunderstorms-forecast-for-north-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/461006\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange warnings as downpours, thunderstorms forecast for North Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Further west, a heavy rain watch has been issued for Bay of Plenty areas from Whakat\u0101ne westwards, including Rotorua and Taup\u014d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">This is in place from 2pm to 11pm on Friday, with periods of heavy rain expected and a moderate chance of the watch being upgraded to a warning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Elsewhere, Taranaki north of Eltham is also under an orange heavy rain warning, with 90 to 120mm of rain forecast, rising to as much as 150 to 200mm about Taranaki maunga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Heavy bursts and squally thunderstorms are expected on Friday afternoon, with downpours likely to continue even after the warning period ends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Heavy rain watches are also in place for Waitomo, Taumarunui and Tongariro National Park, as well as Horowhenua, K\u0101piti Coast, Wellington and the Tararua Range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">MetService advises people across affected regions to stay alert to rapidly changing conditions and to take care when travelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Further west, a heavy rain watch has been issued for Bay of Plenty areas from Whakat\u0101ne westwards, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[806,29815,11585,19555,2082,5616,4999,71,6559,2514,80139,70362,20591,111,43,139,529,69,49042,17711,1562,6560,20592,1455,33210,102],"class_list":["post-461006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-as","tag-downpours","tag-eastern","tag-evening","tag-for","tag-forecast","tag-friday","tag-from","tag-heavy","tag-island","tag-issuing","tag-lash","tag-metservice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-orange","tag-parts","tag-plenty","tag-rain","tag-thunderstorms","tag-warning","tag-warnings","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461006","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=461006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}