{"id":490893,"date":"2026-06-23T03:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490893\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T03:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:25:09","slug":"heavy-rain-severe-gales-thunderstorms-bearing-down-on-top-of-north-island-from-tropics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490893\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain, severe gales, thunderstorms bearing down on top of North Island from tropics"},"content":{"rendered":"

A heavy rain watch is in place from tomorrow morning in eastern Northland and Auckland, while Coromandel Peninsula and western Bay of Plenty will be under an orange heavy rain warning.<\/p>\n

Marshall said Wednesday was looking to be \u201cquite humid\u201d, with warmer minimum temperatures.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, in Whakat\u0101ne, their minimum temperatures will be 13C, which is quite different as they\u2019ve been getting frost recently, which you need to have around three degrees air temperature to even start seeing frost. So yeah, it\u2019s quite a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

The South Island will also be hit by its \u201cown feature\u201d, with a low moving from the southwest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is bringing showers of rain falling as snow above 1800m in the mountain areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat low pressure and front are moving towards one another\u2019s path as that low is moving southeast and that front is moving northeast.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo they are pretty much pushing the air between them as they get closer, and this is resulting in quite strong winds around the Cook Strait.\u201d<\/p>\n

A strong wind watch is in place for either side of the Cook Strait in Wellington and the Marlborough Sounds, with southerly winds approaching severe gale in exposed places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heavy rain watch is in place from tomorrow morning in eastern Northland and Auckland, while Coromandel Peninsula…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29816,80311,8278,6097,71,6561,6559,2514,109274,111,43,139,529,69,1118,90,6560,3008,2848,75414,6211,2224,20592,701,3010,126865],"class_list":["post-490893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-approaches","tag-bearing","tag-conditions","tag-down","tag-from","tag-gales","tag-heavy","tag-island","tag-lowpressure","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-rain","tag-sea","tag-severe","tag-stormy","tag-system","tag-tasman","tag-thunderstorms","tag-tomorrow","tag-top","tag-tropics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490893","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=490893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}