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MetService has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for the risk of downpours in the Auckland, Waikato, Coromandel and western Bay of Plenty regions this Monday afternoon and evening. Widespread rain continues to fall in the eastern areas of the North .
Several flights in and out of Wellington have been cancelled or delayed as thick fog blankets the city this morning. At least 11 departing flights and nine.
A heavy rain watch is in place for the Coromandel Peninsula for this weekend as a tropical low described by MetService as the next “potential severe weather.