Family evacuated after weather bomb

Wild weather across the city saw a home on Godden Crescent evacuated at 4.30am. Photo / Bradley Ambrose

A house was evacuated in Orakei after a bank collapsed, and trees were felled by strong winds in Auckland overnight.

Wild weather across the city saw a home on Godden Crescent evacuated at 4.30am, after a bank behind it collapsed amid heavy rainfall overnight.

A fire service spokesman said the house was being renovated, but a person was living in it at the time.

He also said a number of trees were felled by strong wind overnight.

Weather Watch forecaster Philip Duncan said downpours in Auckland city last night were heavy, and quite a few people said they were woken up by intense rains and wind gusts overnight.

Rain set to continue

In Auckland overnight 24mm of rain fell in Albany, and a heavy downpour saw 10mm fall between 2am and 3am at Auckland Airport.

Strong winds in the Hauraki Gulf were measured on Tiritiri Matangi island, with a mean wind speed of 96km/h and gusts reaching 115km/h.

In Whangaparaoa, gusts reached 105km/h and 100km/h at Manukau Heads.

The meteorologist said Aucklanders could expect today to be dry, but more showers would hit the region by midnight.

Good morning - Torrential rain about Great Barrier Island right now & moving into #CormandelPeninsula / #Thames area next 2 hours.

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) August 5, 2015

A MetService meteorologist said a rain warning was still in place for the Bay of Plenty.

He said the downpours were currently at their worst in the western Bay of Plenty and Coromandel Peninsula.

A huge 25 millimetres of rain had fallen in the last hour near Waitete Bay, on the east coast of the peninsula, and it was still raining in the area.

More heavy rain to come for Bay of Plenty, Rotorua clocked up 48mm so far. Keep current at http://t.co/EI1S89fXlX ^GG pic.twitter.com/uC1J5ANUQh

— MetService (@MetService) August 5, 2015

In the last 12 hours nearly 60mm of rain had fallen south of Taupo, and 44mm had fallen in Rotorua.

Further south, 100mm fell in cape Egmont, Taranaki in the last 12 hours, with 23mm falling in the last hour.