{"id":541167,"date":"2026-07-24T01:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T01:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/541167\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T01:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T01:14:14","slug":"nz-cold-windy-then-calm-frosty-weatherwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/541167\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ: Cold &#038; windy, then calm &#038; frosty | WeatherWatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downpours, some squally with the chance of thunderstorms and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weatherwatch.co.nz\/maps-radars\/lightning\/thunderstorm-outlook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">small tornadoes<\/a> are possible for parts of NZ over Friday PM and Saturday AM as a cold change sweeps over NZ. The sub-antarctic airflow will drop temperatures right across NZ, bringing snow to low levels for a time overnight tonight and Saturday for the South Island, and then snow on the Central Plateau and North Island mountains\/ranges going through the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>There will be large dry areas in the mix \u2013 and not everyone will have gusty winds, but there is a surge of potentially severe gale west to south-westerlies along the western North Island and around Auckland on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Over Sunday and Monday winds ease back further, allowing heavy frosts to spread nationwide with frosts possible as far north as Northland early next week. <\/p>\n<p>High pressure returns for many regions for a time next week with light winds and drier skies, before the next cold front approaches the South Island and weakens as it does so.<\/p>\n<p>*Programming Note: Our Monday video may be published a couple of hours later than usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downpours, some squally with the chance of thunderstorms and even small tornadoes are possible for parts of NZ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-541167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541167","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=541167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}