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Today’s weather certainly isn’t ideal for campers across the country as winds reach gale or near-gale in a number of main centres and regions.
The following centres have gale or near gale force winds at times this hour:
- Exposed parts of Auckland
- Tauranga
- Napier
- Wanganui
- Palmerston North/Manawatu
- Nelson
- Blenheim
- Oamaru
- Dunedin
- Haast
- Invercargill
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