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    WATER WORLD

    Oct 18, 2020 3 minutes

    Only a few days into 2018, a monster storm drenched much of the North Island within 24 hours. The deluge swept over Auckland and massive waves surged inland from the Firth of Thames, ripping up coastal roads, flooding farms with seawater and cutting off communities in the Coromandel.

    A marine heatwave in the Tasman Sea had aggravated a low-pressure system and the resulting tempest came barrelling inland, coinciding with a king tide and riding on top of higher seas. “Heat in the ocean was a big part of that event,” says Tim Naish, a climate scientist at

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