{"id":15434,"date":"2025-10-23T09:23:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15434"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:23:49","slug":"power-outages-flights-cancelled-as-gales-hit-wellington-wairarapa-and-south-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15434","title":{"rendered":"Power outages, flights cancelled as gales hit Wellington, Wairarapa, and South Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lb-item lb-article-text\">\n<div class=\"ng-scope\">\n<div class=\"lb-item-text\">\n<div class=\"ng-scope\">\n<div>\n<article class=\"ng-scope\">\n<div>\n<div><b>What you need to know:<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Wind gusts of more than 200km\/h were recorded in the Canterbury high country on Thursday morning<\/li>\n<li>Flights have been cancelled at Wellington and Christchurch airports<\/li>\n<li>Up to 90,000 properties were without power at the top of the South Island; Transpower is progressively restoring supplies<\/li>\n<li>Some trains are cancelled in Wellington and Wairarapa and council facilities closed in Wellington and Canterbury.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/576689\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-today-s-weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Canterbury, Wellington and Wairarapa south of Carterton are under a rare red level strong wind warning. Rain and wind warnings\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metservice.com\/warnings\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cover much the South Island and the lower North Island<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A state of emergency has been declared in Canterbury.<\/li>\n<li>The forecast has also seen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/576695\/live-nurses-teachers-doctors-and-others-take-part-in-nationwide-mega-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some plans for the mega-strike changed<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A total fire and fireworks ban is in place for Canterbury, Marlborough, Wellington and Hawke&#8217;s Bay.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s what the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/513904\/weather-watches-and-warnings-what-they-mean-and-when-they-re-triggered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weather watches and warnings mean<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/576621\/what-should-you-do-during-after-and-when-cleaning-up-a-wildfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an explainer\u00a0<\/a>of what to do during a wildfire and how to clean up afterwards.\n<p><i>RNZ is New Zealand&#8217;s statutory civil defence lifeline radio broadcaster, providing vital information and updates as they come to hand. All frequencies can be found\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/listen\/amfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><i>.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>How&#8217;s the weather looking at your place? Send your pics to iwitness@rnz.co.nz<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you need to know: Wind gusts of more than 200km\/h were recorded in the Canterbury high country on Thursday morning Flights have been cancelled at Wellington and Christchurch airports Up to 90,000 properties were without power at the top of the South Island; Transpower is progressively restoring supplies Some trains are cancelled in Wellington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434","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=15434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15435,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions\/15435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}