{"id":7879,"date":"2023-09-18T05:23:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T17:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7879"},"modified":"2023-09-18T05:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T17:23:41","slug":"warnings-watches-remain-in-place-for-wind-and-rain-for-much-of-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7879","title":{"rendered":"Warnings, watches remain in place for wind and rain for much of country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Severe gales have caused flight cancellations, road closures and power outages throughout much of the country on Sunday and into Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Much of the South Island, and the lower North Island were put under strong wind warnings or alerts.<\/p>\n

The storm has forced ferry sailings to be cancelled and strong winds in Wellington prevented planes from being able to land at the airport from about 5.30pm on Sunday, causing a number of cancellations and delays.<\/p>\n

MetService data showed a gust of 246.3kmh recorded just before 9pm on Sunday at Cape Turnagain, south of P\u014drangahau on the east of the North Island, where sustained winds of 192.6kmh were measured.<\/p>\n

In Wellington, winds gusted up to 130-140kph and at the Remutaka Hill gusts were measured at 185kph.<\/p>\n

Emergency services had multiple call-outs today related to trees and vehicles being knocked over due to the wind, with fire station alarms sounding repeatedly through the afternoon and evening in some areas.<\/p>\n

MetService warned people to stay up to date with the forecast (MetService warnings\u00a0can be found here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Air New Zealand has cancelled all flights into Wellington for the rest of Sunday, according to their website.<\/p>\n

In the North Island, Wellington, the Tararua District, and parts of Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay are under an orange wind warning until Monday morning.<\/p>\n

In the South Island, an orange wind warning is in place for Marlborough until 10pm, and the Marlborough Sounds, Clutha, Southland, Stewart Island, and Fiordland south of Milford Sound, until Monday.<\/p>\n

State Highway 2 is closed over the Remutaka Hill between Featherston and Kaitoke due to strong winds, Waka Kotahi said.<\/p>\n

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A large macrocarpa tree came down onto Manly Street in Paraparaumu Beach during the storm.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ\/ Michael Cropp<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Aratere<\/i>\u00a0Interislander ferry sailings for Sunday were cancelled due to the rough conditions.<\/p>\n

But Bluebridge Ferries sailings in the early hours of Monday morning were scheduled to go ahead after earlier weather-related cancellations, but it warned they would be rough and may take longer.<\/p>\n

In Mt Cook National Park at Mueller Hut, a gust of 199 kmh was reported, the strongest in three years, NIWA said.<\/p>\n

There had also been reports of vehicles affected by strong winds.<\/p>\n

Police responded to reports of a crash on Mount Cook Road, where a campervan rolled over into a ditch about 1:50pm and another crash where a caravan went down a bank on the Tekapo-Twizel Road about 1:45pm. There were no reported major injuries.<\/p>\n

Severe gales in Wellington were preventing planes from landing at the airport.<\/p>\n

Aircraft had not been able to land since about 5.30pm on Sunday, due to the strong wind, a Wellington Airport spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Severe gales have caused flight cancellations, road closures and power outages throughout much of the country on Sunday and into Monday morning. Much of the South Island, and the lower North Island were put under strong wind warnings or alerts. The storm has forced ferry sailings to be cancelled and strong winds in Wellington prevented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7879","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\/7879","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=7879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7881,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions\/7881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}