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Flood-stricken Auckland begins clean-up after New Zealand’s ‘biggest non-earthquake event’

Hundreds of homes and cars are being cleared as another heavy rain watch is forecast

Evening Standard

Auckland floods: city begins clean-up after ‘biggest climate event’ in New Zealand’s history

As rain and flooding eases, attention turns to assessing the scale of the damage after four people were killed by unprecedented extreme weather

The Guardian - AU

'Kiwis are getting quite good at this': Hipkins tours a water-logged Auckland

New Prime Minister Chris Hipkins followed up an announcement of new cost of living measures on Wednesday with a visit to a North Shore Marae

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The worst of the rain to hit New Zealand's Auckland may have passed

The worst of the forecast rain moved away from New Zealand's flood-ravaged biggest city on Wednesday after inflicting what the finance minister described as probably the "biggest non-earthquake event" in the country's history.

Reuters

Hipkins revives Labour’s fortunes – but the election will be about more than ‘bread and butter issues’

With a cabinet reshuffle just a day after two polls showing Labour ahead again – in which he promoted more Māori MPs to the front bench, created a new Minister for Auckland portfolio and drew a line under the previous administration by demoting several of Jacinda Ardern’s senior ministers –…

The Conversation

The Titirangi street teetering on the edge

The Detail is on the ground in west Auckland, surveying the damage from last week's record-breaking rainfall.

Newsroom.co.nz

Blackwater and nightsoil: Auckland’s weekend up shit creek

While Watercare says it will soon have the wastewater system back in working order, urban beaches are likely to be a no-go for days to come

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Citizens Advice Bureau faces closure in Akld Ccl budget cuts

Wayne Brown’s draft Auckland budget 2023 proposes stopping or reducing funding to the city’s 32 CAB offices. Nearly 1000 volunteers are preparing for a fight.

Newsroom.co.nz

Rain pounds northern New Zealand; further flooding expected

Auckland is preparing for another round of flooding while rain batters northern New Zealand’s Northland region, which declared an emergency Tuesday afternoon in anticipation of the deluge

The Independent UK

A self-destructing mayoralty

Things are acutely uncomfortable for Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown right now, but can he recover to save his mayoralty?

Newsroom.co.nz

Climate change is already putting the heat on insurance companies – Auckland's floods could be a turning point

The clean-up from Auckland’s devastating floods last week is just beginning but insurance companies will need to start thinking about what the record-breaking weather event will mean for future coverage.

The Conversation

Auckland braced for dangerous rainfall days after deadly flood

‘Some might think the worst is behind us, but it isn’t,’ warns mayor

The Independent UK

Auckland's historic flooding explained in five charts

The epic deluge and subsequent flooding across Auckland broke just about every record in the book. Newsroom has pulled the data together to show just how unprecedented this storm was.

Newsroom.co.nz

Auckland floods warning: 'Dangerous' amount of rain forecast after storms kill four

An estimated 24 centimetres of rainfall – equal to an entire summer’s worth of rain – fell in Auckland, New Zealand on Friday, making it the city’s wettest day on record

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The Guardian - UK

Weather tracker: Auckland hit by wettest January on record

High temperatures allow more moisture to be held in atmosphere, with Westport in South Island recording its hottest day

The Independent UK

New Zealand city to get more dangerous rainfall after flood

A dangerous amount of rain is forecast for New Zealand's most populous city four days after Auckland had its wettest day on record in a storm that claimed four lives

Reuters

New Zealand counts cost of Auckland floods, more rain forecast

Flood-ravaged Auckland is forecast to receive further heavy rain in the coming days, authorities in New Zealand's largest city said on Monday, as insurers counted the costs of what looks likely to be the country's most expensive weather event ever.

Newsroom.co.nz

Severe weather continues in North Island: What you need to know

Landslips, road closures, homes and businesses flooded and more heavy rain on the way. Here is what you need to know as the severe weather continues.

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Auckland floods: Residents take stock after extreme downpours

Aucklanders begin cleaning up as the threat of further wild weather lingers

Evening Standard

Death toll rises as New Zealand hit by heavy rain and landslides

Auckland - New Zealand’s largest city of 1.6 million people - remained under a state of emergency on Sunday

Newsroom.co.nz

Why the north and east have had such a dreadful summer

Oceans are at their warmest state ever and that has consequences, Kevin Trenberth writes

Newsroom.co.nz

Deputy PM on flooding response: ‘We do have each other's backs’

The priority is making sure Aucklanders are safe, Carmel Sepuloni says.

The Conversation

Auckland floods: even stormwater reform won’t be enough – we need a ‘sponge city’ to avoid future disasters

We’ve built our cities to be vulnerable to – and exacerbate – major weather events such as the one we saw in Auckland on Friday. While almost no city in the world could fully escape the effects of four months’ worth of rain in 24 hours, there are many things…

Reuters

New Zealand roiled by flash floods, landslides for third day

New Zealand's death toll from heavy rain rose to four on Sunday as flash floods and landslides on the north island continued for a third day.

Newsroom.co.nz

Flooding death toll rises to four

The body of a man swept away by floodwaters in Onewhero has been found

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