A huge hailstorm has lashed Auckland this afternoon, with squally thunderstorms and heavy rain set to sweep across the city later.
The passing storm reportedly flooded a central city carpark, inundating lower floors of the SkyCity building on Hobson St.
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Hail was reported from central to western parts of the city, with videos capturing stones violently pelting down. Photographs show hailstones clumped together, settled into icy chunks.
“Quite a hailstorm,” the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) said.