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Expert asks Australian politicians: How can you sleep when your beds are burning?
Expert asks Australian politicians: How can you sleep when your beds are burning?
The weather will gradually improve as the week progresses, the MetService says.
'We are still a month away from the riskiest time.'
MetService Weather National: January 6th - 8th
MetService Weather Christchurch: January 7th 2020
MetService Severe Weather: January 6th - 7th 2020
Focus Live Earlier: Bush fire smoke from Australia could turn skies orange in New Zealand again.
Smoke from the Australian bushfires affected the atmosphere above the North Island.
Australian bushfires are altering the skies 2000km away.
Smoke from the Australian bushfires has made its way over the Tasman Sea again.
Summer is put on hold this week for some unlucky parts of the country.
MetService Weather National: January 3rd - 5th
MetService Weather Christchurch: January 4th
Chilly days are in the forecast for most places across the country for the next full week.
A orange-tinted haze is hovering over Rotorua and Tauranga this morning.
The upper North Island wakes to a visible reminder of the Aussie bushfire crisis.
Several Cantabrians are reporting smelling smoke this evening from the fires.
Authorities have reported a mostly well behaved night welcoming the New Year.
Residents wake to yellow haze after smoke from Aussie bush fires drifted across Tasman.
The skies will be hazier than usual on the first week of the new year.
Those at some popular holiday spots can welcome in the New Year with clear skies.
Most of the country can expect a warm and dry start to 2020.
A familiar shape formed in the skies above Ōpōtiki, Bay of Plenty.
Get beach ready - more fine and sunny days expected this week.
Seventy evacuation centres activated with 2538 evacuees.
One casualty in Kadavu reported as Tropical Cyclone Sarai lashes the west coast of Fiji.