{"id":491728,"date":"2026-06-23T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/491728\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:30:11","slug":"severe-weather-warning-for-bay-of-plenty-with-risk-of-flooding-and-slips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/491728\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe weather warning for Bay of Plenty with risk of flooding and slips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Residents are being urged to prepare for heavy rain, with streams and rivers likely to rise rapidly and surface flooding and slips a risk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists are also being warned to take extra care on the roads as visibility reduces and surface water builds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Further east, there is a moderate confidence that heavier rainfall could develop in eastern areas of the Bay of Plenty and northern Gisborne on Thursday morning as the system lingers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Showers are forecast to continue across the Bay of Plenty into Thursday before easing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">The unsettled pattern is likely to persist into Friday as the low tracks slowly east, with the heaviest rain risk shifting further south and east by then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Conditions are expected to improve from Saturday as the system moves away, bringing easing winds and rainfall and a reduced risk of severe weather heading into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">MetService said confidence in the exact impacts remains variable and people should stay up to date with forecasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Authorities are advising residents to clear drains and gutters, avoid low-lying areas during heavy rain, and drive cautiously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents are being urged to prepare for heavy rain, with streams and rivers likely to rise rapidly and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11730,95,1561,1558,8278,4189,19876,2082,54171,71,139158,6559,18087,111,43,139,69,1118,17711,1562,17398,6560,7192,2848,89818,1455,4998,1680,102],"class_list":["post-491728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-afternoon","tag-and","tag-bay","tag-been","tag-conditions","tag-driving","tag-flooding","tag-for","tag-forecasters","tag-from","tag-hazardous","tag-heavy","tag-issued","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-parts","tag-plenty","tag-possible","tag-rain","tag-risk","tag-severe","tag-slips","tag-warning","tag-weather","tag-wednesday","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491728","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=491728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}