Severe Thunderstorms are on the cards for Friday 23rd Jan.

Of Special interest is the Canterbury region, where the chance is high.

Highly active storms behave unpredictably; they may be all noise, but then again, there could be damaging winds or flash flooding.

If they are closer than 5secs' between flash and bang (6km away), head indoors.

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