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Week in Weather – What’s been Making Headlines this week
Another eventful and tragic week in the weather world started with gale force winds and ended with fire, with all…
Japan: Deadly Typhoon hits south of Tokyo
A typhoon has caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island before sweeping up the…
Farmers count the cost of Whanganui flooding
Farmers in the wet Whanganui region will be waiting anxiously as the waters start to recede, after heavy rain and…
NZ’s weather bill tops $100m
The cost of extreme weather events in New Zealand this year is likely to top $100 million, the Insurance Council…
India: Clean up continues as government’s early warnings praised
The last time a storm as powerful as Cyclone Phailin struck the eastern coast of India, 10,000 people died. So…
Power outages, road closures, flight cancellations – Winds pound central NZ
The Rimutaka Hill Rd has closed, parliament’s weekly Cabinet meeting is at risk, flights have been cancelled and power has…
Burst of damaging winds for Central NZ
WeatherWatch.co.nz maintains the forecast we issued last week, that gale force winds would likely ramp up to severe gale (or hurricane…
Weather Video: Stormy spring weather moves in
Head weather analyst Philip Duncan teams with nzherald.co.nz to bring you the latest on the incoming stormy weather. Gales, possibly…
Auckland: Front moving in before midnight, risk of stronger winds
A burst of heavy rain is coming in bang on time for Auckland, between 10pm and midnight tonight. It brings…
China – Typhoon Fitow kills five, displaces millions
Typhoon Fitow, which is barrelling into China’s east coast packing winds of more than 200km/h, has killed at least five…
