Weather Hazards
New Zealand communities and related infrastructure will have increased resilience to natural hazards through being able include relevant information on weather related hazards into long term planning, and through short term response to forecasts of the whole range of weather related hazards. This will be achieved through the uptake of climatological information on weather related hazards (e.g., return periods and intensity) by planning agencies, and the adoption of integrated hazard forecasts by weather sensitive industries and emergency response practitioners.