The chill is setting across the country ahead of winter, with Christchurch facing the prospect of sub-zero temperatures.<\/p>\n
MetService said some of the coldest temperatures overnight on Monday were in Tekapo (-3.7C), Dunedin Airport (-2.6), Christchurch (0.8) and Alexandra (-2.2).<\/p>\n
It said the first two weeks of May were expected to be on the cooler side due to southwest winds moving up the country.<\/p>\n
Even with a drier than normal rain outlook, there would also be a number of wet days, especially from mid-May.<\/p>\n
In Auckland, temperatures are expected to dip to a low of 7 degrees Celsius and 5C this week, with some showers expected up until Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The low in Wellington for this week is mostly 5C and 6C. Rain was expected on Monday, Thursday and Saturday in the region.<\/p>\n
Nelson was expected to drop to a low of 2C on Thursday, with some possible showers on Monday but mostly fine for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n
Christchurch is in for a cold snap, with sub-zero temperatures (-3C) expected on Thursday, along with rain, and a low of 0C for Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Further south, Dunedin’s lows were a little better than Christchurch, with 3C and 4C expected on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.<\/p>\n
Morning frost and occasional rain was forecast for Monday for the region, with more rain due Wednesday and Friday.<\/p>\n
Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The chill is setting across the country ahead of winter, with Christchurch facing the prospect of sub-zero temperatures. MetService said some of the coldest temperatures overnight on Monday were in Tekapo (-3.7C), Dunedin Airport (-2.6), Christchurch (0.8) and Alexandra (-2.2). It said the first two weeks of May were expected to be on the cooler […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708","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=9708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9710,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions\/9710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}