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Civil defence has confirmed this week's downpours have matched the devastating 1877 deluge.
Homes in Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough have been left uninhabitable after properties were inundated with flood waters.
Flood-hit Tasman residents are frustrated with delays in getting telecommunications services back up and running.
The blistering early-summer heatwave that’s brought life-threatening temperatures across much of the northern hemisphere is a worrying sign of things to come, UN weather experts said on Tuesday.
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The US Geological Survey believed yesterday's would potentially tie with the sixth largest earthquake recorded, which happened in Chile in 2010, but said it needs more data to verify that.
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