Many across the country have woken to noticeably colder temperatures today, with some areas dropping below freezing. <\/p>\n
MetService said it was “a cold and frosty start for many”, with W\u0101naka and Hamilton both recording 0C, and Queenstown and Timaru dropping to -1C at 7am. <\/p>\n
Taumaranui recorded the coldest start to the day with -2C, while Dunedin was the highest at 12C. <\/p>\n
“Areas with clear overnight skies (without the blanket of cloud) have seen temperatures drop to the low single digits with a few places below freezing!”<\/p>\n
The temperature dip followed a day of intense wind and high swells<\/a> for Wellington’s south coast, driven by a deep low-pressure system<\/a> generating powerful southwesterly winds across the Southern Ocean. <\/p>\n Meteorologist Heather Keats said the weather would be “a bit calmer” today as the large ridge of high pressure over the Tasman Sea slowly moves across the country. <\/p>\n “The wind and swell is gradually easing across the day and skies are mainly fine with morning frost for inland spots,” she said. <\/p>\n She said the morning frost would “thaw quickly” for many areas and be replaced by blue, sunny skies. <\/p>\n The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including Trump threatens retaliation after a helicopter\u2019s shot down, and a man flees from Police into an alligator infested swamp. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many across the country have woken to noticeably colder temperatures today, with some areas dropping below freezing. MetService…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1080,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39,3393],"class_list":["post-469251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weather-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469251","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=469251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}