{"id":558151,"date":"2026-08-03T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558151\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:34:09","slug":"live-weather-drivers-warned-as-snow-blankets-roads-cook-strait-ferries-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558151\/","title":{"rendered":"Live weather: Drivers warned as snow blankets roads, Cook Strait ferries cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Follow our liveblog above for the latest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Plunging temperatures have arrived overnight for much of the country &#8211; but the worst is still to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">State Highway 87 between Outram and Middlemarch in Otago was closed by snow on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Meanwhile, SH1 is closed in Dunedin from Pine Hill Road to Leith Valley Road due to heavy snow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">And SH75 &#8211; the road between Christchurch and Akaroa &#8211; is shut between Tai Tapu and Duvauchelle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Follow our liveblog at the top of this page for the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow our liveblog above for the latest. Plunging temperatures have arrived overnight for much of the country &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-558151","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\/558151","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=558151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}