Hawke's Bay has become covered in haze, with the sun ever changing shades of red and orange due to smoke from the devastating Australian bush fires.
MetService Meteorologist Tahlia Crabtree said the haze was smoke from the Australian bushfires, blown to New Zealand by a north-west flow.
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The smoke was likely to last all of Thursday, Crabtree saying it should clear from Hawke's Bay some time on Friday.
