27 Feb 2023

More rain for flood-ravaged Tai Rawhiti and Coromandel

From Morning Report, 6:08 am on 27 February 2023

Rain is falling - again - on flood-ravaged areas of Tai Rāwhiti and the Coromandel.

A heavy rain watch is in force for Gisborne from Tolaga Bay upwards, and that'll extend to Coromandel later this morning.

There has already been some heavy rain overnight, with a burst of 20 millimetres between 1 and 2am, and some other isolated heavy falls. 

Further afield, another two cyclones could be brewing in the Pacific, but they are unlikely to be headed for New Zealand.

MetService head of communications Lisa Murray spoke to Kim Hill.