{"id":47589,"date":"2022-08-18T13:40:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T04:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/18\/new-zealand-floods-hundreds-evacuate-as-atmospheric-river-brings-deluge"},"modified":"2022-08-18T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T04:40:21","slug":"new-zealand-floods-hundreds-evacuate-as-atmospheric-river-brings-deluge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47589","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand floods: hundreds evacuate as \u2018atmospheric river\u2019 brings deluge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A third straight day of rain has brought flooding, landslips and road closure to both the North and South islands<\/p>\n<p>Torrential rain has slammed the west and north of New Zealand\u2019s South Island for a third straight day, forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes and triggering road and school closures and land slips.<\/p>\n<p>Coming top of weeks of damp weather, Thursday\u2019s rainstorms are worsening conditions in New Zealand\u2019s already sodden landscape. Experts have attributed the unseasonably wet weather to a narrow stream of water vapour, or an \u201catmospheric river\u201d, sitting above the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/18\/new-zealand-floods-hundreds-evacuate-as-atmospheric-river-brings-deluge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third straight day of rain has brought flooding, landslips and road closure to both the North and South islandsTorrential rain has slammed the west and north of New Zealand\u2019s South Island for a third straight day, forcing hundreds to evacuate their h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,455,313,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47590,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47589\/revisions\/47590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}