{"id":515437,"date":"2026-07-08T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/515437\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:38:09","slug":"air-new-zealand-warns-of-flight-delays-as-wild-weather-hits-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/515437\/","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand warns of flight delays as wild weather hits Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">The gusts may reach severe gale-force in exposed parts of the region, with residents being warned of potential damage to trees, powerlines and unsecured structures.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udce2 Warnings Update\u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udfe0Heavy Rain Warning now in force for Wairarapa and the eastern ranges of the North Island \ud83c\udf27\ufe0f<br \/>\ud83d\udfe1 Heavy Snow Watch added for inland Otago and southern Canterbury High Country \u2744\ufe0f<br \/>\ud83d\udfe1 Heavy Rain Watches for the eastern South Island \ud83c\udf27\ufe0f<br \/>\ud83d\udfe1 Strong Wind Watch for\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hfowPpZT87\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/hfowPpZT87<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MetService NZ (@MetService) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MetService\/status\/2074620642574704824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">An orange heavy rain warning is also in place for the eastern ranges of Horowhenua, Manawat\u016b and Taihape and the ranges of the Tararua District and Hawke\u2019s Bay until midnight Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">The wild winter weather has been moving up the country for the past several days, first impacting the upper South Island before shifting north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">On Tuesday, a state of emergency was declared in Kaik\u014dura, with MetService estimating nearly 200mm of rain had fallen in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Hundreds of people were evacuated as riverbanks burst, causing widespread flooding, and many roads were closed throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">A heavy rain warning remains in place until 6pm Thursday for Marlborough and Canterbury between Ward and Hanmer, and southeast of the Awatere Valley, including the Kaik\u014dura Ranges.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gusts may reach severe gale-force in exposed parts of the region, with residents being warned of potential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[68,806,682,3292,2841,4381,16492,19338,70,33443,4508,296,2190,5829,117,111,43,139,69,1118,17711,6744,8222,33210,8218,4998,4767,52,15391,102,80],"class_list":["post-515437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-air","tag-as","tag-being","tag-cancellations","tag-country","tag-customers","tag-delays","tag-expect","tag-flight","tag-heading","tag-hits","tag-into","tag-long","tag-many","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-parts","tag-place","tag-warned","tag-warnings","tag-warns","tag-weather","tag-weekend","tag-wellington","tag-wild","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515437","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=515437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}