People move away from flood water in Hastings, southeast of Auckland, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. The New Zealand government declared a state of emergency across the country's North Island, which has been battered by Cyclone Gabrielle. (Paul Taylor /Hawkes Bay Today via AP) WELLIN...
Sources: NZ Herald, NIWA, MetService, BOM, National Emergency Management Agency. Cyclones Giselle and Bola, occurring 55 and 35 years ago, respectively, are notable cyclone events in New Zealand. In particular, Giselle is remembered for the shipwreck of the ferry, TEV Wahine. Bola was an exce...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The New Zealand government has declared a National State of Emergency for just the third time in history as Cyclone Gabrielle causes widespread flooding, landslides and huge ocean swells across the North ...
On Tuesday, 14 February, and for only the third time in history, the New Zealand government announced a national state of emergency. The flooding and destruction that followed in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle left Northland, parts of Auckland and the eastern coastline of the North Island in d...
s Bay, New Zealand, in this picture released on February 15, 2023. New Zealand Defence Force/Handout via REUTERS By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -The number of people still "uncontactable" in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle that lashed New Zealand two weeks ago has dropped to...
Cyclone Tam and its associated troughs are expected to affect the country during Sunday night and Monday, bringing heavy rain to parts of the South Island. Warnings and Watches for heavy rain remain in force. Please keep up to date with the latest forecasts. Heavy Rain Warning - Orange Are...
Periods of thunderstorms followed, with a possible tornado in Levin on the 6th and localised heavy rain. Attention then turned to Tropical Cyclone Tam, which developed on the 16th and moved southwards across New Zealand. This was a very slow-moving system which brought a raft of weather impact...
How New Zealand funds not just the immediate rebuild of flood and cyclone damaged roads, bridges, and other infrastructure but also adapts for adverse climate events is a multi- (potentially hundred) billion-dollar question. The challenges around funding resilience are not short-term ones. ...
Unlike in Auckland, which braced for Cyclone Gabrielle while still wringing itself out from the floods, Cowpland says in Hawke’s Bay there was no mad dash for the supermarkets beforehand, no “Holy sh*t here it comes”. That, in not so many words, could be Erick Brenstrum’s mantra. ...
In Hawke's Bay, one of the areas worst hit by Gabrielle, heavy rains overnight brought a renewed flood risk to the region where an evacuation order was in place, Hawke's Bay Emergency Management Group said. Homes in the Esk Valley locality had "been unoccupied since the cyclone, ...