The region was originally under an orange severe wind warning from 7pm Monday, but that was moved forward to 1pm. The warning was lifted at 9am today.<\/p>\n
A MetService spokesperson said the gusts experienced overnight didn\u2019t quite reach the \u201cfreakout\u201d threshold, occurring a couple of times a year. <\/p>\n
Wellington Electricity\u2019s outage map shows 68 customers will be without power from 9am to 1pm in Miramar and Seatoun while power lines are repaired from wind damage. <\/p>\n
Over in Wadestown, 47 households are without power from 12pm to 4pm for repairs, a tree has also fallen onto the road in a landslip, blocking Barnard St. <\/p>\n
Tawa also has an unplanned outage with 29 customers affected caused by trees on overhead power lines. Wellington Electricity says it expects to restore power to the area by 3.10pm.<\/p>\n
Part of Oriental Bay was cordoned off due to safety concerns on Monday. Photo \/ Grace Symmans<\/p>\n
Yesterday, part of Oriental Parade and Evans Bay Parade were cordoned off by police after multiple cyclists fell from their bikes and wing mirrors were blown off cars. <\/p>\n
Weather warnings are still active for the Tararua Range, with a strong wind watch until midday.<\/p>\n
Around the country strong winds also caused problems for Wairarapa, Otago and Southland on the long weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n MetService meteorologist Devlin Lynden told the Herald the strongest winds would ease as the weather system moved north.<\/p>\n \u201cBy midday or early afternoon winds will have eased and turned to lighter and cooler southwesterlies.\u201d<\/p>\n Grace Symmans<\/a> is a Wellington-based reporter who covers news in the capital. Grace joined NZME in 2025 as a producer for Wellington Mornings on Newstalk ZB. She can be emailed at grace.symmans@nzme.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The region was originally under an orange severe wind warning from 7pm Monday, but that was moved forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,194408,13037,2199,139257,6789,18692,108725,6562,99485,6800,78,314924,248783,97993,10048,111,43,139,69,1523,6507,10112,8213,20383,39879,10419,4998,52,18980],"class_list":["post-642293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-buffeted","tag-cancelling","tag-city","tag-cleanup","tag-closing","tag-cutting","tag-downing","tag-flights","tag-galeforce","tag-homes","tag-in","tag-kaukau","tag-kelburn","tag-mode","tag-mt","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-overnight","tag-power","tag-recorded","tag-roads","tag-strongest","tag-trees","tag-weather","tag-wellington","tag-winds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642293","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=642293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}