{"id":14078,"date":"2025-06-27T05:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14078"},"modified":"2025-06-27T05:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:15:29","slug":"heavy-rain-lashes-top-of-south-island-before-it-heads-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14078","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain lashes top of South Island before it heads north"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marlborough district mayor Nadine Taylor has declared a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/565158\/weather-tasman-residents-told-to-brace-for-flooding-250km-h-wind-gusts-in-canterbury\">localised state of emergency<\/a>\u00a0for parts of the region.<\/p>\n<p>An orange heavy rain warning is in place until 6pm in the Nelson District about and southeast of SH 6 and north of Nelson Lakes, also Marlborough about and north of Seddon.<\/p>\n<p>Around 60 households in the township of Spring Creek, north of Blenheim have been advised to evacuate by 9am, ahead of peak river levels expected for the Wairau River about midday.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlborough district mayor Nadine Taylor has declared a\u00a0localised state of emergency\u00a0for parts of the region. An orange heavy rain warning is in place until 6pm in the Nelson District about and southeast of SH 6 and north of Nelson Lakes, also Marlborough about and north of Seddon. Around 60 households in the township of Spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14078","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\/14078","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=14078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14080,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078\/revisions\/14080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}