N.Z. Set for More Rainfall as Residents Assess Weekend Damage
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New Zealand’s North Island may receive further rainfall today, helping ease the most widespread drought in at least 30 years that curbed milk output, as residents assess damage from a weekend of heavy showers.
Parts of the Bay of Plenty, on the northern coast, may get 30 millimeters (1.2 inches) to 50 millimeters of rain between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. local time, MetService said on its website today. The city of Tauranga received more than 200 millimeters over the weekend, John Corbett, media meteorologist at the forecaster, said by phone from Wellington.