{"id":486617,"date":"2026-06-20T06:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/486617\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:03:10","slug":"christchurch-hits-june-temperature-high-strong-winds-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/486617\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch hits June temperature high, strong winds strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christchurch has seen its hottest June temperature on record, hitting 25.1 C at 2pm today, as northwesterly winds buffet the South Island and lower North Island.<\/p>\n<p>Gusts of more than 120km\/h have been recorded in Canterbury today, MetService said.<\/p>\n<p>MetService is warning of heavy rain and strong winds this afternoon and overnight.<\/p>\n<p>MetService updated its forecast this morning to pull back the times for when it expects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/weather\/598894\/flooding-slips-possible-in-south-island-amid-heavy-rain-warnings\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the wind and rain to abate<\/a>, with the South Island all clear by 1am Sunday and the lower North Island by 5am Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Flooding forced the closure of State Highway 6 between Haast and Makarora earlier. This has since reopened, with NZTA advising drivers to be wary of remaining surface water.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was also closed between Rapahoe and Nine Mile in the Grey District due to a slip. This has since reopened, with NZTA advising drivers to expect delays as the road remained under stop\/go control.<\/p>\n<p>All warnings are expected to lift by the early hours of Sunday, with the MetService forecasting only scattered rainfall for the Winter Solstice.<\/p>\n<p>A front preceded by a strong northwest flow is the culprit. MetService expects it to move over southern and central New Zealand today and into Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Areas covered by an orange strong wind warning are:<\/p>\n<p>Areas covered by an orange heavy rain warning include:<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain watches are in place for:<\/p>\n<p>Strong wind watches are in place for:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christchurch has seen its hottest June temperature on record, hitting 25.1 C at 2pm today, as northwesterly winds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-486617","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486617","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=486617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}