{"id":13314,"date":"2025-04-16T05:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13314"},"modified":"2025-04-16T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:43:08","slug":"tropical-cyclone-bringing-heavy-rain-strong-winds-to-upper-north-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13314","title":{"rendered":"Tropical cyclone bringing heavy rain, strong winds to upper North Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northland Civil Defence is urging the region to prepare for possible high winds and power outages as severe weather associated with Tropical Cyclone Tam approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain and strong winds are due to hit to the upper North Island from Wednesday, with damp skies expected for much of the country over the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p>MetService Meteorologist Silvia Martino said Cyclone Tam&#8217;s centre may not reach New Zealand but the country will feel its impact for days.<\/p>\n<p>The first rain was expected in the early hours of Wednesday, and heavy downpours should continue until Thursday night. The worst of the weather was forecast on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northland Civil Defence is urging the region to prepare for possible high winds and power outages as severe weather associated with Tropical Cyclone Tam approaches. Heavy rain and strong winds are due to hit to the upper North Island from Wednesday, with damp skies expected for much of the country over the rest of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13316,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions\/13316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}