{"id":495394,"date":"2026-06-25T20:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495394\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:13:10","slug":"weather-live-flights-cancelled-trees-downed-and-roofs-damaged-by-strong-winds-around-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495394\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather live: Flights cancelled, trees downed and roofs damaged by strong winds around country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of flights are being cancelled as heavy winds cut power, damage roofs and prompt emergency callouts around the country.<\/p>\n<p>It comes amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/weather\/621572\/severe-southerlies-lash-wellington-stronger-gales-expected\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weather warnings and watches<\/a> across the country for heavy rain and heavy wind.<\/p>\n<p>There are also snow fall and heavy swell warnings.<\/p>\n<p>Ferries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/weather\/620342\/weather-strong-winds-hit-powerlines-cancel-flights-ferries-and-close-highways\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have also been cancelled<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>Follow our liveblog above for the latest information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of flights are being cancelled as heavy winds cut power, damage roofs and prompt emergency callouts around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-495394","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\/495394","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=495394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}