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MetService too slow, rival claims
« on: October 15, 2012, 09:21:43 AM »
State company says its first alert on weekend storm was issued last Tuesday.

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Independent weatherman Philip Duncan has hit out at the country's official forecaster, claiming the MetService was too slow issuing a severe weather warning for Auckland at the weekend.....

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Re: MetService too slow, rival claims
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2012, 12:23:55 PM »
the warning that was eventualy issued was too late for western waikato/auckland area
but would have given a heads up for eastern coromandel area, that got the period of severe gales a coupld of hours after they went through the western side
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