Some road snowfall warnings have been extended until Friday as MetService expects snow to accumulate on some South Island roads overnight. <\/p>\n
This afternoon, the forecaster issued road snowfall warnings for Lewis Pass (SH7), Arthur’s Pass (SH73), Crown Range Rd and Milford Road (SH94) – all due to expire by Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n
MetService meteorologist John Law said it was a “cooler feeling day” which would bring some snowfall over the higher mountain passes. <\/p>\n
“For Friday, it’s a similar story,” he said. “Another front makes its way up the country, bringing the risk of one or two rumbles of thunder, perhaps even something a little bit sharper around the eastern coast of Canterbury, up towards Marlborough, and even Wairarapa again for later in the day.” Law explained. <\/p>\n
Earlier this week, many parts of the South Island<\/a> were hit by heavy rain and severe gales<\/a> on Monday, as the active front moved up the country.<\/p>\n Current watches and warnings<\/p>\n Strong Wind Watch<\/p>\n Hawke’s Bay south of Hastings and the Tararua District \u2013 expiring 10pm today.<\/p>\n Wairarapa about and north of Martinborough \u2013 expiring 3pm today.<\/p>\n Road Snowfall Warnings<\/p>\n Lewis Pass (SH7) \u2013 8pm today until 8am tomorrow. <\/p>\n Arthur’s Pass (SH73) \u2013 4am tomorrow until 8am tomorrow<\/p>\n Crown Range Road \u2013 6am tomorrow until midday tomorrow<\/p>\n Milford Road (SH94) \u2013 midnight until 5am Friday.<\/p>\n The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds including dozens dead in a Spanish train crash, axe wielding robbers hit an Upper Hutt dairy, and how voters differ from political parties on issues. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some road snowfall warnings have been extended until Friday as MetService expects snow to accumulate on some South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,3393],"class_list":["post-644839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-weather-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644839","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=644839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}