{"id":48211,"date":"2022-09-06T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T00:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/06\/new-zealand-snow-christchurch-dunedin-wellington-snowfall-closes-state-highways"},"modified":"2022-09-06T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T00:19:53","slug":"new-zealand-starts-spring-with-surprise-snow-after-warmest-ever-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48211","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand starts spring with surprise snow after warmest ever winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctic blast closed highways and brought snow to Christchurch, Dunedin and even Wellington<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has begun spring with snow at sea level, with flurries falling in Christchurch, Dunedin and even Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>The surprise dump comes after the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/02\/new-zealand-weather-warmest-wettest-winter-on-record-aotearoa\">warmest and wettest winter on record<\/a>, with snowfall closing state highways on both North and South Islands on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/06\/new-zealand-snow-christchurch-dunedin-wellington-snowfall-closes-state-highways\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctic blast closed highways and brought snow to Christchurch, Dunedin and even WellingtonNew Zealand has begun spring with snow at sea level, with flurries falling in Christchurch, Dunedin and even Wellington.The surprise dump comes after the count&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"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":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48211","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\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48212,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48211\/revisions\/48212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}