Each year the MetService aims to detect and warn of at least 75 per cent of all significant wind, rain or snow events.

And each year it outdoes itself, says weather ambassador Bob McDavitt.

This week the weather forecast service came in for a blasting from Far North Mayor Wayne Brown, who blamed it and television news for thousands of holiday cancellations in Northland over Labour weekend.

Philip Duncan, head weather analyst at Weather Watch, said a problem with people relying on television weather forecasts was that these were “one shot” and once a weather warning had gone out, it was difficult to retract.
 

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