{"id":4368,"date":"2023-05-11T05:17:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2023-05-11T05:17:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:17:34","slug":"thunderstorms-hit-auckland-with-more-than-120-lightning-strikes-some-hitting-sky-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4368","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorms hit Auckland with more than 120 lightning strikes, some hitting Sky Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Active thunderstorms have moved over Auckland, bringing torrential rain, wind gusts, thunder, lightning and hail to parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The thunderstorms hit about 8:50pm on Wednesday night and followed a day of wild weather on Tuesday where a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/489573\/auckland-flooding-what-you-need-to-know\">state of local emergency was declared<\/a>\u00a0by mayor Wayne Brown.<\/p>\n<p>MetService predicted the storms, giving Aucklanders about 20 minutes warning before they began.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><\/div>\n<p>More than 120 lightning strikes had been reported, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The majority hit the city since 8:45pm, and forecasters said more were expected into the night.<\/p>\n<p>MetService said the band of thunderstorms responsible was moving eastward.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, Hauraki Gulf Weather said its live webcam caught lightning directly hitting the Sky Tower.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Active thunderstorms have moved over Auckland, bringing torrential rain, wind gusts, thunder, lightning and hail to parts of the city. The thunderstorms hit about 8:50pm on Wednesday night and followed a day of wild weather on Tuesday where a\u00a0state of local emergency was declared\u00a0by mayor Wayne Brown. MetService predicted the storms, giving Aucklanders about 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4368","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\/4368","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=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}