Weather: Heavy rain and snow closes roads
More wet weather in store for many parts of country today.
More wet weather in store for many parts of country today.
The river at Kaeo has flooded onto the highway, with water levels rising to 3.5m.
Expect clouds and sporadic showers today, but it's only going to get worse.
Streams and rivers could rise rapidly and flooding and slips are possible.
The forecast is not looking great heading into the school holidays.
The forecast is not looking flash for the first week of the winter break.
Clearer skies on the horizon for North Island after grey, drizzly day.
A series of fronts moves across the country bringing rain and wind.
Auckland Transport is also warning of delays or cancellations to public transport today.
Dunedin and Invercargill could see snow by Saturday, WeatherWatch says.
Rainfall of up to 40mm an hour is forecast in Northland this evening.
Freakish high winds were blamed for the death of a woman in Cambridge yesterday.
Wild weather has hit the country.
The first few days look stunning but things take a turn for the worse.
Rainfall of more than 150mm could be recorded in some areas.
Residents were evacuated overnight and hundreds are still without power.
Mayor Rehette Stoltz said Tokomaru Bay had been 'cut in half' due to damage on the bridge.
For the second weekend in a row Wellington is in for a drenching.
Gusts reached up to 120km/h in Wellington yesterday.
Storms have dislodged deadly scorpions into houses in the lower Nile.
Wet weather is set to dampen Halloween plans as October draws to an end.
"There's a lot of pressure to modify floodplains and create housing" - Auckland Council.
More heavy rain is expected until this afternoon.
Civil Defence says people should be ready to evacuate despite level 4.
Rain is expected to hit most of the country tomorrow, and it will be heavy in parts.
And don't forget to rug up for the rugby in Auckland tonight.
Vector staff are working hard to restore power to parts of the city which remain without.
Doesn't happen often, but minimal risk to New Zealand for now.
Six minutes shy of the gloomiest November, summer promises warmth for Wellingtonians.
More rain has fallen in Taranaki in the last day than all of last November.