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Storms, floods and droughts

Subjects · 15 stories · 2013–2017

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  1. MetService apologises for mistaking cloud for cyclone

  2. After much deliberation over catchy ways to refer to storm, media settles on ‘Cyclone 2: Many Cook spoils the Beach’

  3. TVNZ measuring strength of storm in different locations by how wet and injured their reporters become

  4. Tararua Mayor says rain falling at a 61 degree angle to total accumulation of 17.2mm on a Thursday is ‘one in 1,000 year event’

  1. Quick tips: 13 subtle signs your house may be flooded and you need to evacuate

  1. Media sure is pleased they took lots of stock images of trees from the last storm

  1. Environmentalists confused as nature destroys trees

  1. Peter Dunne’s house still without power

  2. Wild weather smashes open Beehive, releases bees

  3. Christchurch, Dunedin residents unsure what to do with all this bread

  4. Snow Watch 2013

  1. Lightning, water spouts provide country impression that something is happening

  1. Maurice Williamson looking pretty stupid after floods

  1. Return of Marmite eases drought

  2. Government aid for farmers “droughtful”, jokes Key