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<\/p>\nThe Milford to Te Anau Road has closed for the night because of a risk of avalanches.<\/p>\n
Snow is forecast to fall there and in several other places in the south of the South Island from this evening.<\/p>\n
MetService has issued road snowfall warnings for the Crown Range Road, Lindis Pass and Arthurs Pass.<\/p>\n
There is an orange strong wind warning in place for Hawkes Bay from 7pm tonight, with gusts of up to 120 kilometres an hour possible.<\/p>\n
Several roads closed in Whang\u0101rei after heavy rain caused flooding this weekend.<\/p>\n
MetService meterologist Braydon White says it has lifted its rain warning for the region and that yesterday’s heavy downpours have eased.<\/p>\n
He says up to 120 millimetres of rain fell in an hour in some parts, while there was up to 90mm in an hour in Kerikeri.<\/p>\n
The closed roads include Russell Road, Ngunguru Road North, Otonga-marua Road, Marua Road, and Kaiikanui Road.<\/p>\n
Several other roads were down to a single lane because of surface flooding.<\/p>\n
In an update on Sunday, the Whangarei District Council said the effects of the heavy rain have been only minor.<\/p>\n
A Civil Defence spokesperson said there was flooding and small slips in some places.<\/p>\n
The council said all roads that were closed due to the downpour will be open today.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency said a slip occurred at a house on Queen Street in Russell last night.<\/p>\n
Crews were attending another incident when they became aware of the slip.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson said the people in the house chose to stay there overnight.<\/p>\n
Wind watches in place<\/p>\n
MetService says the heavy rain for northern New Zealand will move away to the east early today.<\/p>\n
It is warning people in Hawke’s Bay, Tararua and parts of the South Island to brace for heavy winds.<\/p>\n
It’s issued an orange strong wind warning for Hawke’s Bay south of Hastings, and the Tararua District from 7pm on Sunday until tomorrow evening.<\/p>\n
It says severe gale westerlies could gust up to 120km\/h in exposed places.<\/p>\n
It’s also issued a strong wind watch for Tasman and southern areas of Southland, Clutha and Dunedin.<\/p>\n
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Snow on Whates Bridge on SH73 earlier this week.<\/p>\n
NZTA \/ Waka Kotahi<\/p>\n
Snow warning<\/p>\n
The lower South Island is bracing for more heavy snow, with MetService issuing a warning for Otago.<\/p>\n
A road snowfall warning is in place for Milford Road, Lindis Pass, Crown Range Road, and Arthur’s Pass.<\/p>\n
Up to 12 centimetres of snow is forecast to settle between 500 and 900 metres.<\/p>\n
In Southland, State Highway 94 will close from 4.30pm on Sunday due to the risk of an avalanche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milford to Te Anau Road has closed for the night because of a risk of avalanches. Snow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-584718","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\/584718","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=584718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}