The worst weather appears to be over for Auckland, but the city remains under a local state of emergency after a day of torrential rain.<\/p>\n
Most areas across the region were hit by rainfall of up to 35 millimetres an hour, causing flooding across some roads and creating gridlock on main routes.<\/p>\n
MetService has lifted the severe thunderstorm watch for Auckland and is on track to lift the heavy rain warning this evening.<\/p>\n
Meteorologist Georgina Griffiths says the back edge of the rainfall is nearly through Auckland and the risk of the high intensity downpours has reduced.<\/p>\n
But a severe thunderstorm watch is still in force for the Bay of Plenty and the Coromandel Peninsula, and the Bay of Plenty is in for a rough night, Griffiths says.<\/p>\n
The thunderstorms are expected to be accompanied by torrential rain.<\/p>\n
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in force for Coromandel Peninsula and the rest of the Bay Of Plenty.<\/p>\n
Coromandel Civil Defence head Gary Towler earlier said he was expecting another three or four hours of intense rain before the front passed through.<\/p>\n
The region has now surpassed its normal annual rainfall, with 3.5 metres of rain falling since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n
Towler says conditions are not severe, but the weather is being closely monitored. About 40mm of rain an hour was falling, which they could cope with, Towler said.<\/p>\n
Source RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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