{"id":17139,"date":"2026-04-13T06:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17139"},"modified":"2026-04-13T06:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:10:05","slug":"cyclone-vaianu-brings-220m-of-rain-to-coromandel-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17139","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Vaianu brings 220m of rain to Coromandel in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Coromandel weather station recorded more than 200mm of rain as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/592114\/live-weather-cyclone-vaianu-brings-damaging-winds-heavy-rain-to-north-island\">Cyclone Vaianu swept over the North Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/life\/wellbeing\/anxious-about-thunderstorms-and-lightning-here-s-what-you-can-do\">cyclone<\/a>, which caused power outages, flooding and road closures across the east coast of the North Island, tracked away from mainland New Zealand overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Some residents reported it was not as severe as the storms earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>MetService meteorologist John Law said although Vaianu had veered east, the cyclone track was still within the forecast &#8220;cone of uncertainty&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Wind gusts of up to 126km\/h were recorded at M\u0101hia, with even higher speeds recorded at offshore stations, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Very heavy rain was also recorded in some places in the 24-hour period to Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The base of the Coromandel, we&#8217;ve seen as much as 220mm of rainfall through there, and, similarly, in towards parts of the Bay of Plenty and the higher ground there, as much as 140 to 150mm of rain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New Zealanders did an &#8220;amazing job&#8221; of preparing in the days before the cyclone arrived, Law said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People working together to make sure that everyone&#8217;s up to date with the latest forecasts and watches and warnings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always unfortunate to see impacts like the flooding and those power outages, but I think people have done very well to be prepared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Coromandel weather station recorded more than 200mm of rain as\u00a0Cyclone Vaianu swept over the North Island. The\u00a0cyclone, which caused power outages, flooding and road closures across the east coast of the North Island, tracked away from mainland New Zealand overnight. Some residents reported it was not as severe as the storms earlier this year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17141,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139\/revisions\/17141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}