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FRI: Brisk sou'westers and showers more frequent during the afternoon. High: 14

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Video: Damage from Hurricane Earl

Hurricane Earl battered tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and damaging winds on Monday, rapidly intensifying into a major Category 4 storm on a path projected to hit the United States this weekend.

In the Caribbean, Earl caused flooding in low-lying areas and damaged homes on islands including Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla and St. Maarten.

The rapid development of Earl, which only became a hurricane on Sunday, took some islanders and tourists by surprise.

See the video below...

• Cold snap rushing up the country

  A cold snap is today rushing up the country with temperatures falling fast behind it.

  At 11:45 Christchurch had a mild 11 degrees with a north easterly while just further south in Timaru the southerly had hit and temperatures have dropped to only 6 degrees.

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• Earl, restrengthened to a Category 4, heads toward USA

• South west flow moving in

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