{"id":77016,"date":"2026-04-12T15:41:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/12\/cyclone-vaianu-new-zealand-north-island-floods-power-outages-hundreds-evacuated"},"modified":"2026-04-12T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:41:52","slug":"floods-power-outages-and-hundreds-evacuated-as-cyclone-vaianu-lashes-new-zealands-north-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77016","title":{"rendered":"Floods, power outages and hundreds evacuated as Cyclone Vaianu lashes New Zealand\u2019s North Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclone crossed coast near Maketu peninsula, packing destructive winds exceeding 130km\/h (80 mph), heavy rain and large swells<\/p>\n<p>Cyclone Vaianu made landfall in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand\u2019s<\/a> North Island on Sunday, triggering floods, power outages and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/11\/new-zealands-north-island-braces-for-cyclone-vaianu-with-thousands-ordered-to-evacuate\">forcing hundreds to evacuate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cyclone crossed the coast near the Maketu peninsula, packing destructive winds exceeding 130km\/h (80 mph), heavy rain and large swells, national weather provider MetService said, describing Vaianu as a \u201clife-threatening\u201d system.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/12\/cyclone-vaianu-new-zealand-north-island-floods-power-outages-hundreds-evacuated\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclone crossed coast near Maketu peninsula, packing destructive winds exceeding 130km\/h (80 mph), heavy rain and large swellsCyclone Vaianu made landfall in New Zealand\u2019s North Island on Sunday, triggering floods, power outages and forcing hundreds to&#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":[41,455,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77016","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=77016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77017,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77016\/revisions\/77017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}