Climate crisis “likely” played a role in exacerbating the heavy rainfall events that flooded northeast New Zealand following Cyclone Gabrielle, making such incidents “four times more common” in the region, a new study has found.
In February, Cyclone Gabrielle caused extreme rain that fell over two days, causing extensive damage and costing billions of dollars in economic losses in New Zealand, making it one of the deadliest and costliest cyclones to hit the region on record.
