Author: John Grant
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Here is our latest update. Yesterday our tracking was showing Cyclone Cody tracking to make landfall east of Whakatane. Today Cody has moved slightly east and now looks likely to miss New Zealand although it’s still a powerfull storm and the impact from Cody will still be felt here on the Coromandel. We are awaiting […]
Tropical Cyclone Cody is moving towards New Zealand and MetService are forecasting very stormy weather to impact parts of the North Island and upper South Island. Impacts are likely to begin in the north on Sunday and move down the country. The Coromandel is expected to see large swells and plenty of rain over a […]
Greenstone entertainment has today announced the cancellation of their summer concert for 2022. Here is their release issued a short time ago. Despite working hard behind the scenes and had confirmed a fabulous international line-up for 2022 some time ago. Covid restrictions lead us to delay our announcement, as we didn’t feel it was appropriate […]
A number of models are now show a clearer indication of a likely path of TC Cody as it heads south after battering Fiji. Cody has been upgraded this afternoon to a Category 3 storm and is starting to now head in a South Easterly direction. WeatherWatch in their recent update have said that La […]
New Zealand had 19 cases today and five of these were in the Waikato with Thames Coromandel having 3 of these. Two were in Coromandel and 1 in Tairua, this adds to the three in Matarangi to give a combined total of active cases of 6 now on the Peninsula. Testing remains very light which […]
So much can change and so quickly. As a country we have lived with the fear of Covid for nearly two years. Closer to home on the Coromandel, we’ve had the odd brush with Covid. Let’s go back to August 17 2021. The Prime Minister has called a news conference announcing that New Zealand would […]
UPDATE 4:24pm  The boat belonging to a fisherman who has been reported missing near Whangapoua has been located.  At 2pm a private vessel came across the missing boat named Tubby, approximately 24 nautical miles off the coast of Whitianga. No one was located on board and the boat is in the process of […]
SEVERE WEATHER WARNING Issued by MetService at 9:54 am Tuesday 14-Dec-2021 Heavy rain for parts of the North Island and upper South Island ,also northwest Tasman A complex low pressure system affects central and northern New Zealand through to early Thursday, delivering rain to many places. Heavy Rain Warnings and Watches are in force for […]
NZ Transport Agency advises State Highway 25 South of Coromandel Town will be closed during the day on 14 December. It will be closed at Kereta Hill, south of Coromandel, from 10am to 3pm to recover a vehicle. The vehicle went off the road just below the Manaia Road lookout and the highway needs to […]
