MetService is predicting more heavy rainfall on the West Coast on Thursday as a slow moving front between Westland and Fiordland is forecast to move northwards.
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The West Coast is set to get the worst of the torrential rain. Franz Josef locals say they are stocked up with full freezers and can happily hunker down.