{"id":51694,"date":"2025-09-30T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/51694\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:20:10","slug":"air-new-zealand-flights-diverted-after-severe-winds-batter-south-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/51694\/","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand flights diverted after severe winds batter South Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe will continue to monitor the situation closely; however, these conditions are expected to continue into the evening,\u201d McGraw said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">Customers who have had their travel plans impacted by today\u2019s weather events are being re-accommodated on the next available services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe thank them for their patience as our teams work to get them safely to their destinations,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">A front preceded by strong northwesterlies moved on to the South Island from the Tasman Sea this afternoon, MetService said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">A strong wind watch is in place for the Canterbury High Country until 6am tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">Otago, Fiordland, Stewart Island and Southland remain under the same strong wind watch until this evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe will continue to monitor the situation closely; however, these conditions are expected to continue into the evening,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2840,74,11730,68,1863,44485,44486,40647,8278,73,70,6562,23546,42,2514,117,43,2848,1240,11555,1961,40,38,41,39,540,18980,80],"class_list":["post-51694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-across","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-air","tag-back","tag-batter","tag-battering","tag-blustery","tag-conditions","tag-diverted","tag-flight","tag-flights","tag-forcing","tag-headlines","tag-island","tag-new","tag-news","tag-severe","tag-south","tag-started","tag-this","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-where","tag-winds","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51694","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=51694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}