{"id":476796,"date":"2026-06-14T11:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/476796\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:54:15","slug":"wetter-weather-and-cooler-temps-to-start-off-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/476796\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wetter weather and cooler temps&#8217; to start off the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MeService says wetter conditions and cooler temperatures are forecast from tonight into Monday. <\/p>\n<p>It followed a weekend of warmer temperatures and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/06\/13\/flights-cancelled-delayed-due-to-fog-at-auckland-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fog<\/a> which disrupted dozens of flights across the country on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The forecaster said most regions recorded temperatures in the double digits by 3pm today, with Ashburton and Napier both recording highs of 21C.  <\/p>\n<p>However, MetService meteorologist John Law said &#8220;some wetter weather and cooler temperatures&#8221; would return from this evening. <\/p>\n<p>A front was forecast to move across southern parts of the country from this evening, bringing some heavy rain for northern Fiordland and Westland, and northwest gales for inland Canterbury. <\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain watches were issued for the Westland ranges until 8am Monday, and Fiordland north of Doubtful Sound until 10pm tonight. <\/p>\n<p>A strong wind watch was in place for Canterbury High Country and plains near the foothills until 6am Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MeService says wetter conditions and cooler temperatures are forecast from tonight into Monday. It followed a weekend of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,3393],"class_list":["post-476796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/476796","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=476796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}