28 Jun 2025

Heavy rain and snow for the south

From Saturday Morning, 7:11 am on 28 June 2025
Nelson flooding from plane

Photo: Kate Green

It's been a wet and wild start to the school holidays.

On Friday residents in Tapawera and Tadmor Valley near Nelson were warned to move to higher ground as a state of emergency remains in place. 

Mandatory evacuation orders came into force for parts of Spring Creek, north of Blenheim

Now all eyes - are on Dunedin and Clutha where an orange rain and snowfall warning is in place until later this evening.

MetService's head of weather news Heather Keats talks to Mihi.

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