{"id":577518,"date":"2026-08-23T04:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577518\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T04:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:40:11","slug":"sunday-update-damaging-gales-moving-through-weatherwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577518\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Update: Damaging gales moving through | WeatherWatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a special Sunday update with the latest on the severe gales over parts of the country today. Generally speaking the winds peak today then ease back for many tonight or overnight.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday another surge of nor\u2019westers develops in the South Island and moves in to the lower North Island \u2013 but not as strong or as widespread as the gales we\u2019ve got today.<\/p>\n<p>Wind related damage is still possible today \u2013 here\u2019s the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weatherwatch.co.nz\/maps-radars\/warnings\/metservice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warnings map <\/a>from MetService.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also alpine snow that may affect highways in the South Island \u2013 and some southern and western <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weatherwatch.co.nz\/maps-radars\/lightning\/lightning-strikes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thunderstorms<\/a> too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have a special Sunday update with the latest on the severe gales over parts of the country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-577518","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\/577518","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=577518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}