Conditions could still be dangerous after the storm had passed, according to National Emergency Management Agency advice shared by MetService.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring and after the storm you should also beware of fallen trees and power lines [and] avoid streams and drains as you may be swept away in flash flooding,\u201d that advice says.<\/p>\n
Heavy rain warnings, watches for eastern areas<\/p>\n
Parts of the North Island are forecast to be battered by heavy rain this weekend, as a front sweeps up the country, bringing colder temperatures and a risk of frosts.<\/p>\n
MetService meteorologist Alwyn Bakker told the Herald the weekend\u2019s weather would grow increasingly unsettled before easing off into early next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to get quite wet on the east coast of the North Island.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several heavy rain warnings and watches will be in place throughout today for eastern parts of the country, with more potentially on the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s more in the kind of we might need to put a watch out territory rather than lots of exciting stuff happening, everybody prepare now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bay of Plenty about and east of Kawerau is under watch until 9am, while Gisborne north of Tolaga Bay is under a heavy rain warning until 8pm.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a trough over most of the country yesterday, a low approaching the upper North Island from the Tasman Sea. All of that\u2019s going to be moving eastwards today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another front will build in the south later today and shift upwards across the country over the course of the weekend.<\/p>\n
Temperatures are expected to be above average today but will begin to drop as strong southerlies move in on Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks like there is going to be a bit of a frost risk for a lot of the country,\u201d Bakker said.<\/p>\n
The incoming cold weather is not expected to match the intensity of the recent cold snap.<\/p>\n
Auckland will fall from 16 C on Saturday to 13 C on Monday, with the frost risk beginning in the South Island before \u201cgradually\u201d moving northwards.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s better news further off on the horizon\u201d, Bakker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s looking like we\u2019ll be looking reasonably ridgy next week, so that\u2019s more of those clearer skies, colder days kind of thing, but we\u2019ve got a bunch of wet weather to get through first.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conditions could still be dangerous after the storm had passed, according to National Emergency Management Agency advice shared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11586,3806,6559,19476,20591,111,43,139,1067,69,6560,2848,6100,69695,8238,1455],"class_list":["post-568123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-coast","tag-east","tag-heavy","tag-lifted","tag-metservice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-rain","tag-severe","tag-still","tag-thunderstorm","tag-under","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568123","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=568123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}