Wild weather: Torrential rain floods Auckland motorway, warning for motorists
Metservice says a severe weather warning is in place from 6pm tonight.
Metservice says a severe weather warning is in place from 6pm tonight.
Part of Clayton Road has closed this morning after a crash has caused significant damage to a power pole. Video / Andrew Warner
Rainfall of up to 40mm an hour is forecast in Northland this evening.
Storm clouds laced with moist, humid air from the tropics are bearing down on NZ.
Six of MetService's seven 'red warnings' issued in past year a taste of climate change.
Within the space of an hour Auckland was temporarily obscured.
'Fifty-six years on this Earth and nature still amazes and surprises me ...'
An anti-cyclone will arrive late in the week and push showers away.
Southwest winds are bringing severe gales to parts of the North and South Islands.
Hundreds of Aussies turned up to vote without pants today, despite the rainy conditions.
Freakish high winds were blamed for the death of a woman in Cambridge yesterday.
It took time for emergency services to free the critically injured woman, who later died.
Snow has carpeted skifields, roads and mountain passes in the lower South Island.
Wild weather has hit the country.