Fog restrictions remain in place at Auckland Airport, with 33 regional flights cancelled, six delayed and two diverted as at 9am.<\/p>\n
One main trunk domestic flight has been delayed while international flights are unaffected. <\/p>\n
Auckland commuters have been advised to take extra care on the roads this morning with fog cloaking the motorway network. <\/p>\n
MetService meteorologist Alanah Burrows told the Herald an \u201cextensive\u201d blanket of fog had formed across the city, stretching to the Firth of Thames and into some parts of Hamilton.<\/p>\n
She said the fog was linked to moisture drawn in from the northwest.<\/p>\n
The weather was expected to become more unsettled tomorrow as an active trough moved east across the country.<\/p>\n
MetService meteorologist Maddy Neal told the Herald that a second front moving across Fiordland today would likely bring \u201dsmall hail but slightly less intense rain and winds\u201d.<\/p>\n
The North Island would be \u201ca mainly fine story\u201d today, Neal said, with morning fog and frost in sheltered places.<\/p>\n
Low-confidence heavy rain is possible about Taranaki Maunga, the central North Island high country, the Tararua Range, Buller and Grey, although no heavy rain watches or warnings have been issued.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery cold southwesterlies\u201d are then forecast to sweep across the country on Saturday, bringing shivery chills as the trough moves away to the east.<\/p>\n
Snowfall is also possible over South Island hills and ranges on Saturday morning, Neal said.<\/p>\n
She added that there was low confidence that warning-level rain could continue about the central North Island high country and Taranaki Maunga.<\/p>\n
Southwesterlies in Northland and Auckland also \u201dcould reach severe gale\u201d, she said, although the risk remained low.<\/p>\n
Conditions are expected to begin easing from Sunday as a low and associated front moves across the North Island while high pressure builds over the South Island.<\/p>\n
MetService\u2019s outlook shows a minimal risk of severe weather by the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fog restrictions remain in place at Auckland Airport, with 33 regional flights cancelled, six delayed and two diverted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2681,95,806,51,20703,11519,10669,22048,73,14736,3463,6562,7469,661,20591,130,1304,111,43,139,69,6560,84628,6633,131,1961,1529,121085,4998,23644,102],"class_list":["post-539287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-airport","tag-and","tag-as","tag-auckland","tag-cancelled","tag-causing","tag-delayed","tag-disruption","tag-diverted","tag-domestic","tag-dozen","tag-flights","tag-forecasts","tag-major","tag-metservice","tag-more","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rain","tag-shifts","tag-snow","tag-than","tag-this","tag-three","tag-thunder","tag-weather","tag-winter","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539287","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=539287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}