An ice-cold wall of water rose so quickly that expat Suzanne Morris had seconds to escape her Colorado apartment in the middle of the night last Wednesday. Ms Morris, formerly of Auckland, and her American…

A large high over us is already starting to slip away and we have some windier, showery, weather on the way for the end of the week. Next week we’re looking at a potential sub-tropical low – which we…

Don’t worry – the headline is about as severe as it gets this week, nothing like last week! The first low will affect northern NZ over Monday and Tuesday while at the same time a high rolls up the South…

Areas affected were mostly in the rural region west of Christchurch, where outages were caused by trees or branches falling on power lines. Power had been restored to most of urban Christchurch, but…