Video will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto playA grim week is in store for storm-battered New Zealand with more deluges set to drench the country and a threat of a tropical cyclone bearing down at Easter. It may be a fine weekend but it will be short lived with weather models showing northern and central New Zealand in the firing line for days of heavy rain fuelled by moist sub-tropical air. Hard on its heels a tropical cyclone, which is starting to form north-east of Vanuatu, may be headed to our shores in time for next weekend and the start of the school holidays. But the Easter forecast looked far more ominous with a second possible cyclone tracking directly towards New Zealand in what would be an extraordinary week of back-to-back storms. Noll said they were keeping a close eye on the tropics where a disturbance north-east of Vanuatu was expected to form into a tropical cyclone.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 07, 2017 01:18 UTC