A strong wind watch for Southland, inland Otago and western Clutha comes into effect from 9pm tomorrow and lasts until 11am on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Watches and warnings have been issued in the South Island. Photo \/ MetService<\/p>\n
MetService meteorologist Lewis Ferris told the Herald heavy rain would mostly be on the western coasts.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you happen to be travelling up the western side, you\u2019ll have the rain to contend with.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if you happen to be travelling up the eastern side, say State Highway 1, you might be seeing more of the northwesterly winds.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the rain moves north over the weekend, watches and warnings could be issued for western areas of Tasman, Ferris said.<\/p>\n
The rain will reach the lower North Island by Sunday, but will be less severe than in the south.<\/p>\n
Eastern areas of the South Island can expect winds and some rain over the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith those warm northwesterly winds, we could see temperatures reach up to 20 degrees around Canterbury.\u201d <\/p>\n
Temperatures in the region are forecast to peak on Saturday afternoon, Ferris said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know Canterbury\u2019s in a pretty dire situation with not having much rain, and the system looks like they might get some, but it\u2019s not going to be a big game changer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most of the North Island can expect settled weather this weekend until conditions worsen on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll see strengthening northwesterly winds through the Cook Strait, but generally the North Island doesn\u2019t have much to contend with weather-wise on Friday. Even Saturday will be a pretty nice day for most.<\/p>\n
\u201c[On Sunday] people will need to be keeping an eye on the weather if they\u2019re trying not to get caught in the rain.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rain Warnings <\/p>\n
Fiordland will be under an orange heavy rain warning from 7pm on Friday until 2pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Around 120-150mm of rain is expected, with peak rates of 15 to 25 mm\/h on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
The ranges of Westland, as well as the headwaters of the Canterbury lakes and rivers south of the Hurunui River, are under the same warning until 7pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Between 160 and 290mm of rain is forecast in those areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strong wind watch for Southland, inland Otago and western Clutha comes into effect from 9pm tomorrow and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,8278,36174,4189,19876,6559,3594,2514,18087,111,43,139,69,1523,17711,17398,6560,89818,1240,35924,1961,61,33210,3604,4998,4767,10000,102],"class_list":["post-483257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-conditions","tag-difficult","tag-driving","tag-flooding","tag-heavy","tag-hit","tag-island","tag-issued","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-parts","tag-possible","tag-rain","tag-slips","tag-south","tag-surface","tag-this","tag-to","tag-warnings","tag-watches","tag-weather","tag-weekend","tag-wind","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483257","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=483257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}