MetService has a red warning in place for the thunderstorms - which it says will move toward the area around Te Aroha and Paeroa at 7pm and be accompanied by torrential rain and hail.

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14 Dec: Crews on the ground and in the air are fighting to put out a vegetation fire in rural Whanganui

14 Dec: Praise for NZTA for choosing to build a new two lane bridge being built on State Highway 2, in Eastern Bay of Plenty

13 Dec: Fire crews are battling a large blaze on Auckland's North Shore

13 Dec: Freshly caught shellfish are off the Christmas menu in the Eastern Bay of Plenty this year

12 Dec: Tsunami warning for northern Japan called off after magnitude 6.9 earthquake

12 Dec: Hundreds of iceberg earthquakes detected at the crumbling end of Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier

12 Dec: Scientists set up camp in middle of Antarctica to achieve a climate science first

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