{"id":58517,"date":"2025-10-03T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/58517\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:38:10","slug":"auckland-thunderstorms-forecast-with-90km-h-winds-and-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/58517\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland thunderstorms forecast with 90km\/h winds and heavy rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">Eastern parts of the North Island and much of the South Island are at a low risk of thunderstorms in the morning but are predicted to be hit by showers.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Much of the North Island is at moderate risk of thunderstorms on Saturday morning. Photo \/ MetService\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Much of the North Island is at moderate risk of thunderstorms on Saturday morning. Photo \/ MetService<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">The risk of thunderstorms increases to moderate for more northern parts of the South Island, with hail potentially reaching 15mm in diameter. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"There is a threat of thunderstorms for Auckland and most of the North Island on Saturday. Photo \/ NZME\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>There is a threat of thunderstorms for Auckland and most of the North Island on Saturday. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">The heavy rain watch should lift this morning for the Bay of Plenty east of \u014cp\u014dtiki, but North Otago and Dunedin are under a heavy rain watch from 4am to 7pm.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Thunderstorms are forecast to affect much of the North Island throughout the day and into the evening on Saturday. Photo \/ MetService\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Thunderstorms are forecast to affect much of the North Island throughout the day and into the evening on Saturday. Photo \/ MetService<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">MetService predicts the wet weather will linger into Sunday and the North Island can expect scattered rain or showers, some of which will possibly be heavy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">Heavy rain is forecast for the South Island at the start of Sunday, but MetService said this should clear later in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">Isolated showers are then predicted for the west of the South Island in what is otherwise forecast to be a mainly fine Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eastern parts of the North Island and much of the South Island are at a low risk of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48634,2840,95,51,5346,5616,20590,6559,111,43,139,69,22399,6560,40653,544,20592,18980,102,80],"class_list":["post-58517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-90kmh","tag-across","tag-and","tag-auckland","tag-expected","tag-forecast","tag-gusts","tag-heavy","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-places","tag-rain","tag-showers","tag-some","tag-thunderstorms","tag-winds","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58517","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=58517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}