MetService says there is “moderate confidence” severe gales will affect Marlborough Sounds, Wellington and Wairarapa on Thursday.<\/p>\n
A front preceded by strong northwesterlies is set to move across the South Island and onto central New Zealand on Thursday, it said.<\/p>\n
While showers are currently forecast Thursday for Wellington, Nelson and Masterton, MetService said there was a moderate confidence warning amounts of rain would accumulate in Fiordland, the ranges of Westland and the adjacent headwaters.<\/p>\n
MetService said the front is forecast to move northeast across the North Island on Friday and weaken while an active trough moves northeast over the lower South Island.<\/p>\n
There was a low confidence the severe northwest gales would affect Wellington and Wairarapa, including the Tararua District. There was also a low confidence severe southwest gales will affect coastal Southland, Clutha and Dunedin.<\/p>\n
MetService noted while warning amounts of snow are not expected, there is likely to be snow to low levels over the South Island later in the day.<\/p>\n
“The snow may cause disruptions to transport,” it said.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, a “cold showery southwesterly flow” is forecast to affect much of the country. However, this is set to ease on Sunday as a ridge builds from the west.<\/p>\n
MetService said over both days of the weekend, there’s “minimal risk” of severe weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MetService says there is “moderate confidence” severe gales will affect Marlborough Sounds, Wellington and Wairarapa on Thursday. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16256,111,43,139,69,3393,52],"class_list":["post-547678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-marlborough","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-weather-news","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547678","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=547678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}