Is a flood likely to happen in new zealand?

Answer 1

Any flat area in NZ must be considered as a record of floods in the past.

Even the immense Canterbury Plains are the result of flood deposition of material eroded from the Southern Alps.

With climate change, one of the important effects will be the warming of the oceans, and the resulting uptake of moisture into the atmosphere, from where it will be precipitated as rain.

We must expect more flooding, and more intense flooding. All over the World.