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The Titirangi street teetering on the edge

The Detail is on the ground in west Auckland, surveying the damage from last week's record-breaking rainfall.

Newsroom.co.nz

Rain pounds northern New Zealand; further flooding expected

Auckland is preparing for another round of flooding while rain batters northern New Zealand’s Northland region, which declared an emergency Tuesday afternoon in anticipation of the deluge

The Independent UK

A self-destructing mayoralty

Things are acutely uncomfortable for Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown right now, but can he recover to save his mayoralty?

Newsroom.co.nz

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Climate change is already putting the heat on insurance companies – Auckland's floods could be a turning point

The clean-up from Auckland’s devastating floods last week is just beginning but insurance companies will need to start thinking about what the record-breaking weather event will mean for future coverage.

The Conversation

Auckland braced for dangerous rainfall days after deadly flood

‘Some might think the worst is behind us, but it isn’t,’ warns mayor

The Independent UK

Auckland's historic flooding explained in five charts

The epic deluge and subsequent flooding across Auckland broke just about every record in the book. Newsroom has pulled the data together to show just how unprecedented this storm was.

Newsroom.co.nz

Auckland floods warning: 'Dangerous' amount of rain forecast after storms kill four

An estimated 24 centimetres of rainfall – equal to an entire summer’s worth of rain – fell in Auckland, New Zealand on Friday, making it the city’s wettest day on record

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Weather tracker: Auckland hit by wettest January on record

High temperatures allow more moisture to be held in atmosphere, with Westport in South Island recording its hottest day

The Guardian - UK

New Zealand city to get more dangerous rainfall after flood

A dangerous amount of rain is forecast for New Zealand's most populous city four days after Auckland had its wettest day on record in a storm that claimed four lives

The Independent UK

New Zealand counts cost of Auckland floods, more rain forecast

Flood-ravaged Auckland is forecast to receive further heavy rain in the coming days, authorities in New Zealand's largest city said on Monday, as insurers counted the costs of what looks likely to be the country's most expensive weather event ever.

Reuters

Severe weather continues in North Island: What you need to know

Landslips, road closures, homes and businesses flooded and more heavy rain on the way. Here is what you need to know as the severe weather continues.

Newsroom.co.nz

Auckland floods: Residents take stock after extreme downpours

Aucklanders begin cleaning up as the threat of further wild weather lingers

Newsroom.co.nz

Death toll rises as New Zealand hit by heavy rain and landslides

Auckland - New Zealand’s largest city of 1.6 million people - remained under a state of emergency on Sunday

Evening Standard

Why the north and east have had such a dreadful summer

Oceans are at their warmest state ever and that has consequences, Kevin Trenberth writes

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Deputy PM on flooding response: ‘We do have each other's backs’

The priority is making sure Aucklanders are safe, Carmel Sepuloni says.

The Conversation

Auckland floods: even stormwater reform won’t be enough – we need a ‘sponge city’ to avoid future disasters

We’ve built our cities to be vulnerable to – and exacerbate – major weather events such as the one we saw in Auckland on Friday. While almost no city in the world could fully escape the effects of four months’ worth of rain in 24 hours, there are many things…

Reuters

New Zealand roiled by flash floods, landslides for third day

New Zealand's death toll from heavy rain rose to four on Sunday as flash floods and landslides on the north island continued for a third day.

Newsroom.co.nz

Flooding death toll rises to four

The body of a man swept away by floodwaters in Onewhero has been found

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The Independent UK

Auckland ‘clobbered’ with record-breaking downpour and massive floods

Rain that would typically fall in the course of a summer fell in a single day, weather agencies say

AAP

NBL Breakers clinch play-offs, beat United

New Zealand Breakers have overcome a slow start to triumph over Melbourne United 80-74 in Auckland and keep their chase for a top-two NBL finish alive.

Al Jazeera

Three dead after torrential rain, flash floods inundate Auckland

Torrential rains that battered parts of Auckland marked the wettest day ever recorded in the region.

Bangkok Post

Three dead, one missing after record rain in New Zealand

Record levels of torrential rain in Auckland left three dead with a fourth person missing, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said on Saturday after flooding devastated the country's largest city.

Newsroom.co.nz

The Auckland floods are a sign of things to come

Until New Zealand's stormwater drain system adapts to our rising climate, it will never be able to cope with the level of flooding seen in Auckland on Friday night, writes James Renwick.

Pedestrian.tv

Check In On Ur Kiwi Mates ’Cos Auckland Is Copping Massive Floods RN With 2 Deaths Confirmed

“Auckland is going underwater and I can’t go home," one resident said from her car via TikTok.

ABC News

Three people dead and at least one missing as rain pounds Auckland

New Zealand's new prime minister, Chris Hipkins, says record rainfall in Auckland is as "an unprecedented event in recent memory", as highways are closed and water pours into homes.

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