{"id":558437,"date":"2026-08-04T05:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558437\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T05:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:48:15","slug":"live-weather-wellington-could-be-in-for-more-snow-tonight-dunedin-drivers-urged-to-take-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558437\/","title":{"rendered":"Live weather: Wellington could be in for more snow tonight; Dunedin drivers urged to take care"},"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 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\">Snow was spotted in Wellington on Tuesday afternoon, after large falls hit the Dunedin area closing roads and schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Strong winds have been hitting many areas too and MetService has warned there is still at least another day ahead of icy temperatures.<\/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 for much of the country &#8211; but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-558437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558437","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=558437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}