The army is helping with supplies to keep livestock fed but more than 100,000 sheep and cattle are already believed to have been lost. The extent of the damage won’t be known until the flooding eases, ...

We can expect heat waves to get hotter and longer, extreme rainfall from thunderstorms ... The current high-pressure system in the Tasman Sea sets up the conditions that cause both the wet ...

But they can also drive bouts of extreme heat and dry. Earlier this year, a blocking high located in the Tasman Sea helped drive ... lead to more intense heat waves," he said.