{"id":76377,"date":"2026-02-15T15:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/15\/new-zealand-officials-warn-more-flooding-could-hit-north-island-as-man-killed-after-heavy-rain"},"modified":"2026-02-15T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:42:05","slug":"new-zealand-officials-warn-more-flooding-could-hit-north-island-as-man-killed-after-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76377","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand officials warn more flooding could hit north island as man killed after heavy rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worst weather forecast to hit late on Sunday, a day after floods caused power outages, road collapses and home evacuations<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s weather bureau has warned more flooding could hit the country\u2019s North Island, a day after floods caused power outages, road collapses, home evacuations and caused the death of a man whose vehicle was submerged on a highway.<\/p>\n<p>There was \u201cthreat to life from dangerous river conditions, significant flooding and slips\u201d as a deepening low-pressure system east of the North Island brought heavy rain and severe gales to several regions, the weather bureau said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/15\/new-zealand-officials-warn-more-flooding-could-hit-north-island-as-man-killed-after-heavy-rain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worst weather forecast to hit late on Sunday, a day after floods caused power outages, road collapses and home evacuationsNew Zealand\u2019s weather bureau has warned more flooding could hit the country\u2019s North Island, a day after floods caused power outage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,313,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/76377","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76378,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76377\/revisions\/76378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}