{"id":499901,"date":"2026-06-28T17:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/499901\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:47:23","slug":"south-island-freeze-hits-7c-as-icy-blast-grips-mackenzie-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/499901\/","title":{"rendered":"South Island freeze hits -7C as icy blast grips Mackenzie Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNow it\u2019s turned quite decisively colder as the winds come more southerly. And they\u2019ve been pretty consistently southerly for a few days now and that\u2019s just brought the temperatures right down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThen you also get some, some clear overnight skies, and the ground can just drop in temperature quite rapidly,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Conditions are expected to be similar tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf1e What&#8217;s in store for the rest of the weekend and the start of the working week? \ud83e\udd76<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc8 High pressure comes to dominate the country.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf26\ufe0f But there will still be some cloud and showers about, especially over the next few days in the eastern North Island <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/edZGhwug6T\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/edZGhwug6T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MetService NZ (@MetService) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MetService\/status\/2070654112350503096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNow it\u2019s turned quite decisively colder as the winds come more southerly. And they\u2019ve been pretty consistently southerly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[249846,74,806,45290,2841,2842,76372,44412,27497,3191,4508,146142,2514,5511,5983,57531,10138,111,43,139,69,17711,164343,6274,544,1240,686],"class_list":["post-499901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-7c","tag-after","tag-as","tag-blast","tag-country","tag-experienced","tag-freeze","tag-freezing","tag-grips","tag-heat","tag-hits","tag-icy","tag-island","tag-just","tag-levels","tag-mackenzie","tag-mercury","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parts","tag-plummeted","tag-recordbreaking","tag-some","tag-south","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499901","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=499901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}