{"id":584584,"date":"2026-08-30T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584584\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:50:08","slug":"cold-front-smacks-the-south-blowing-over-caravan-and-bringing-snow-to-near-sea-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584584\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold front smacks the South, blowing over caravan and bringing snow to near sea level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cold\u00a0front\u00a0could bring snow to near sea level in Dunedin Monday night\u00a0as\u00a0MetService issues strong wind watches and road snowfall warnings for\u00a0Otago and Southland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The forecaster said the southwesterly front would\u00a0bring snow to 500m in Dunedin, Southland and Clutha on Sunday night, lowering to near sea level Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>A strong wind watch has been issued for Southland, Clutha and Dunedin, extending\u00a0north to\u00a0Waikouaiti and Middlemarch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/x\/status\/2093883162380406913\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/p>\n<p>The watch runs for 27 hours from 9am Sunday to noon on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Westerly winds may approach severe gale in exposed areas, gusting to 100kmh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Caravan hit by strong winds<\/p>\n<p>A police spokeswoman said they were called to the scene of a crash involving a caravan that had blown over in strong winds on State Highway 1 north of Balclutha at about 12.15pm Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The road is under stop\/go traffic management, just south of the Paterson Rd intersection, while debris is cleared.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported in the crash.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Snow expected on mountain passes<\/p>\n<p>For inland areas, road snowfall warnings have been issued for Lindis Pass, Crown Range Rd, Milford Rd and Arthur\u2019s Pass in Canterbury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Snow is expected to fall above 800m Sunday afternoon, lowering to about 400m by Monday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spring is set to arrive just in time for the start of September though, with temperatures rising to 18degC by midweek.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cold\u00a0front\u00a0could bring snow to near sea level in Dunedin Monday night\u00a0as\u00a0MetService issues strong wind watches and road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-584584","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\/584584","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=584584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}