MetService is forecasting a warm and wet start to the week for many as a complex area of low pressure affects the country. However, a change in regime is coming at the end of the week as the persistent mild northerlies give way to cold southerlies. .
A local state of emergency has been declared for Tairāwhiti and all major roads out of the region are now partly closed by slips and flooding.
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