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British Met Office drops long range forecasts
Seasonal weather forecasts have been abandoned as dismal failures by the British Meteorological Office, but New Zealand weather and climate agencies say they will continue with such predictions.
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High seas batter Kaikoura coast
High seas battered coastal roads leaving debris strewn across State Highway 1 north of Kaikoura yesterday.
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Residents allowed home after Hawkes Bay wave warning
Beachfront residents in the Hawkes Bay have been allowed to return home after waves reported to be as high as a house prompted an evacuation today.Police told residents at Haumoana and Ocean Beach, near Hastings, to flee after...
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Save water or face cuts, Kaitaia residents told
Residents of Kaitaia in the Far North have been told they could have their water turned off if they do not step up their conservation efforts.
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Auckland swelters in record dry spell
Auckland is coming through a record dry patch - only 5mm of rain fell in February, the least since records began in 1959.The rain also stayed away from much of the rest of the country, although forecasters predict some relief...
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FRIZZY FEBRUARY WEATHER
As the cicada season moves out and the mushroom season moves in, people have been commenting on the high humidity we had in February. This is no great surprise: the sea-surface temperature of the seas around New Zealand reach their annual peak in late February/early March, and the sea is the source for most of [...]
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Forecast for autumn released
After a lacklustre summer, an average autumn appears to be on its the way, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research's (Niwa) national climate centre says.
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Wednesday's national highs...Chch finally takes the top spot
Today's highest temperature was 30 at Christchurch.
Today's lowest maximum temperature was 20 at Haast.
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At last, summer's here
Christchurch has marked only its second day of the summer above 30 degrees Celsius.
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Dob-in-a-neighbour call in parched North
A tough crackdown on water use - including business closures and a call for people to dob in neighbours using garden sprinklers - is being lined up in the Far North as drought continues to wring the region dry.Several towns have...
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Motorway flood chaos warning
High tides and bad weather could flood Auckland's Northwestern Motorway in coming months, stranding thousands of commuters and causing gridlock.The New Zealand Transport Agency has warned motorists and cyclists of unusually high...
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Cyclone prolongs hot, humid nights
Muggy nights of up to 100 per cent humidity have swamped the north of the country since the weekend and look set to continue for a couple more days - or longer, if Cyclone Rene tracks back towards New Zealand.Metservice forecaster...
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Coast to Coast race adopts 'Plan B' to beat wild weather
Coast to Coast competitors were forced to take a detour this year after wild West Coast weather caused "the full Plan B" to be enacted for the first time in the event's 28-year history.
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Lousy Christchurch summer continues
Today there was a glimmer of hope that the curse would be broken after many weeks of cloudy and drizzly easterly conditions(otherwise known as murk) in Christchurch.
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Is summer fading early for many of us?
Blog - by Philip Duncan
I mean it when I say I don't like being the bearer of bad news. I don't get any sort of thrill by possibly destroying any final shreds of happiness for those of you currently disappointed with the summer weather you may have had.
But things may not be looking good.
The weather patterns around the country remain unsettled... and while February is usually the hottest month of the year conditions in March can go downhill quite quickly.
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Heavy rain may force change to one-day event
Heavy rain and strong winds are set to hit the Coast to Coast one-day race tomorrow.
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Kiwi starve to death in Northland drought
Northland's drought is having devastating effects for the local Kiwi population.
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January was wet, cool and cloudy
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) has confirmed what most of us already knew: January was a miserable, grey, wet month.
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Havoc and evacuations as storm lashes cape
Wind and heavy rain lashed East Cape over the weekend, leading to the evacuation of six people from Mangatuna village, a small settlement north of Tolaga Bay as swelling rivers threatened to flood.The residents were moved out...
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Taranaki battered by wild winds
Gale force winds battered Taranaki yesterday, ripping down powerlines and snapping limbs off trees.
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