{"id":597711,"date":"2026-09-12T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597711\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:04:10","slug":"metservice-weather-outlook-snow-possible-in-south-island-high-country-rain-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597711\/","title":{"rendered":"MetService weather outlook: Snow possible in South Island high country, rain elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">For others, the front meant rain, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMost of the country towards the end of the week will get a period of rain as that [front] spreads north \u2026 towards Thursday night it comes through Wellington, [and] Auckland might see it Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"MetService's 5-day rain radar shows a forecast front over parts of the South Island at midnight on Thursday. Significant snow is possible to high country parts of the South Island, with rain elsewhere, from late Wednesday night. Image \/ MetService\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>MetService&#8217;s 5-day rain radar shows a forecast front over parts of the South Island at midnight on Thursday. Significant snow is possible to high country parts of the South Island, with rain elsewhere, from late Wednesday night. Image \/ MetService<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">However, most Kiwis would be enjoying sunshine and settled weather over the weekend and into the start of the working week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">A large, long-period swell is expected around the country today, especially along the southern coast of the South Island and around the Chatham Islands, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/metservice\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/metservice\/\">MetService<\/a> wrote on X. <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is expected to ease over the next few days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf0a Large, long-period swell is expected around the country today, especially along the southern coast of the South Island and around the Chatham Islands. This is expected to ease over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>For all marine forecasts, head to <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QAeeJ691ws\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/QAeeJ691ws<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S4aw3KzKkD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/S4aw3KzKkD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MetService NZ (@MetService) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MetService\/status\/2098499872928538960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">A few showers in parts of Southland are expected to become more persistent as a cold front pushes onto the South Island tonight, but the rest of the day would be \u201cpretty nice for most of the country\u201d, Walton-Jones said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTomorrow that front moves mostly offshore, so those showers in southern areas ease off in the morning, while most of the rest of the country stays pretty fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">A few showers may affect parts of the South Island West Coast, and western coasts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/auckland\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/auckland\/\">Auckland<\/a> and Northland tomorrow, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Temperatures tomorrow would be \u201cpretty much as expected\u201d for the time of year, with highs of 17C in Auckland, Hamilton and Palmerston North, 19C in Tauranga and Napier, 15C in Wellington and Christchurch, and 14C in Dunedin \u2013 where strong southwesterlies are expected to ease in the morning.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"It should be a nice day for outdoor activities across most of the country tomorrow. Photo \/ Alex Burton&#10;\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>It should be a nice day for outdoor activities across most of the country tomorrow. Photo \/ Alex Burton<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">The settled weather would continue for most through the first few days of the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt looks a pretty nice start to the working week other than along the West Coast of the South Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\"> \u201cThe rain will start a bit earlier there, ahead of the front \u2026 it looks like Tuesday evening that rain starts to spread up the West Coast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Cherie Howie is an Auckland-based reporter who joined the Herald in 2011. She has been a journalist for more than 20 years and specialises in general news and features.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For others, the front meant rain, he said. \u201cMost of the country towards the end of the week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4995,2841,307,294613,52000,5616,14154,2959,78,2514,5511,4507,20591,111,43,139,69,17695,29241,17711,17398,6560,117811,5257,6633,544,1240,4497,4998,1680,686,23644,9184,1959],"class_list":["post-597711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-away","tag-country","tag-dont","tag-duvets","tag-elsewhere","tag-forecast","tag-give","tag-high","tag-in","tag-island","tag-just","tag-late","tag-metservice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-outlook","tag-pack","tag-parts","tag-possible","tag-rain","tag-settled","tag-significant","tag-snow","tag-some","tag-south","tag-start","tag-weather","tag-wednesday","tag-week","tag-winter","tag-yet","tag-your"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597711","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=597711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}