{"id":518227,"date":"2026-07-09T21:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/518227\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T21:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:36:10","slug":"metservice-forecasts-frosty-but-clear-skies-for-matariki-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/518227\/","title":{"rendered":"MetService forecasts frosty but clear skies for Matariki long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">A drop in temperatures is expected to accompany the lack of cloud, bringing colder conditions to most parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWith those clear skies, that means that we\u2019ve got less insulation overnight, so we could see some quite frosty mornings through the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">In the North Island, Taup\u014d will be dropping to -1C, while Dunedin will fall to -4C and Aoraki Mt Cook could be as cold as -9C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Burrows said the cold snap would be welcome news for those hoping to head outdoors, bringing \u201cbluebird skies\u201d to many popular ski spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got loads of clear skies, especially like, you know, those ski fields in Queenstown and W\u0101naka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got a lot of snow there from the recent snow that we\u2019ve had, and it\u2019s going to be clear and dry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drop in temperatures is expected to accompany the lack of cloud, bringing colder conditions to most parts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158000,3013,15458,3470,8278,2082,7469,220034,7799,36329,296,36424,2190,191513,20591,60388,111,43,139,69,9877,10949,4767,80],"class_list":["post-518227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-bluebird","tag-but","tag-cards","tag-clear","tag-conditions","tag-for","tag-forecasts","tag-frosty","tag-heads","tag-ideal","tag-into","tag-largely","tag-long","tag-matariki","tag-metservice","tag-mornings","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-skies","tag-stargazing","tag-weekend","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518227","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=518227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}