Photos: Wild Wednesday weather

  • 25/03/2016
The flooded Riwaka river spills into a nearby Orchard (Emily Cooper)
The flooded Riwaka river spills into a nearby Orchard (Emily Cooper)

Many around New Zealand were in clean-up mode on Thursday after wild weather battered parts of the country overnight on Wednesday.

Homes and businesses near Nelson were swamped by floodwaters from the Riwaka and Motueka rivers.

Further south in the West Coast's Franz Josef area, the Waiho river burst its bank, flooding nearby properties.

See the photos.

Newshub.