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Incoming rain: Warnings for deluges, thunderstorms as wild weather bears down on New Zealand

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MetService National weather: July 6th - July 9th.

Nearly 20 rain, snow and wind alerts are in force across northern and western New Zealand as a tropically charged low sets to unleash a burst of wild weather.

Much of New Zealand will be cloaked under grey skies today, with rain starting to fall at the top of the country and worsening across the day.

Rain warnings and watches stretching from Northland to Westland, came into force at 11am, with rain not letting up in some regions until 3pm Saturday.

Plenty to digest on the Severe Weather Outlook... but to boil it down to a few words - Wild weather ahead! pic.twitter.com/xPt8sQTqNr

— MetService (@MetService) July 6, 2022

Gales are also set to batter much of the country, with MetService warning wild weather is in store for nearly every region thanks to a subtropical rainmaker behind widespread flooding in New South Wales.

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The incoming deluge could lead to flooding and slips in areas saturated by midweek rain.

Northland, Coromandel Peninsula, Mt Taranaki, Bay of Plenty, Rotorua, the ranges of Gisborne north of Ruatoria, Tasman west of Motueka, Buller and Westland are under heavy rain warnings and watches.

MetService has also added a strong wind watch for South Taranaki, inland Whanganui and Taihape tomorrow and a heavy snow warning for the Canterbury high country.

A number of South Island alpine passes are under road snow warnings with the forecaster warning of "impactful snow" across inland regions.

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"With the upcoming school holidays it could be worth taking the weather into account for your travel plans," warned MetService.

It's the first several major storms that forecasters say will sweep across the country in the next fortnight.

In its severe weather outlook, MetService says as well as heavy rain approaching warning criteria, Northland would likely be rattled by thunderstorms.

The large low and associated fronts were expected to move onto New Zealand from the west tomorrow, bringing heavy rain to many areas and strong winds to the north and snow to the central South Island.

šŸŒ€ A series of strong lows are expected over the next 2 weeks with tropical moisture connections šŸ’§

One is likely on Friday, another possible on Monday & more possible later next week.

The theme will be wetter than normal conditions (🟢) with the potential for flooding 🌊 pic.twitter.com/bGzYLEn8CX

— NIWA Weather (@NiwaWeather) July 6, 2022

Niwa weather said a series of strong lows, fuelled by rain from the tropics, were expected over the next two weeks.

Another was set to hit on Monday and more later in the first week of the holidays.

"The theme will be wetter than normal conditions with the potential for flooding," said the forecaster.

Weatherwatch.co.nz said the North Island would bear the brunt of the most unsettled weather in half a decade, with at least six lows bringing bursts of rain and wind in the next 10 days.

The forecaster said although not all lows were stormy, at least three were expected to produce "severe weather risks".

This winter pattern was the most unsettled the North Island had seen in half a decade, after five years of general rain shortage across the top half of the island, said the forecaster.

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