All wind records broken for the grey lynn weather station here now 86.5 km/h gust 70 km/h avearge and building..
many damage reports coming in, Waiheke ferries all cancelled and power off on the island, trains blocked by trees down, accidents on the harbour bridge from trucks blown around, broken moorings, many trees/power lines down now
The wind in my part of Auckland really starting to pick up. Losing some roofing tiles off the Gazebo. Will have to deal with that in the morning. Just saw a distant flash of lightning to the north.
Cripes they've now declared a state of emergency up there, and still it rains and blows. My heart goes out to those poor folk in the north, I have some mates up that way and they got badly beaten up by the last storm.
And looking at Metwuw theres more rain on the way there for Sunday Monday, on what will already be very drenched countryside.
News TV 3 showed lot of flooding up north, Kerikeri and Kaeo are badly affected.
At the moment in Titirangi it is dry for the last 10 minutes, some wind but not bad at all.
Perhaps silence before the storm.
Harbour bridge lights are out as well as some areas on the north shore have power outages TV1 closeup news at the moment.
scottiedavies, quite a few power line flashovers have occured and were possibly the flash you saw.
Coming back from Albany via Hobsonville at around 1630 hrs had the powerlines swinging and bouncing in the wind allright.
scottiedavies wrote:The wind in my part of Auckland really starting to pick up. Losing some roofing tiles off the Gazebo. Will have to deal with that in the morning. Just saw a distant flash of lightning to the north.
It quite possible was a flashover. The first one i saw did look like lightning in the distance. A while later i saw another flash out the corner of my eye. It seemed to have a greenish colour to it, and looked a lot to be in the albany area. This i thought would have had something to do with the substation there.
The roof of this apartment building has literally peeled off in the wind with insulation blowing all down the street. Just off Ponsonby Road. 4 Fire Appliances there and the Firemen don't know what to do!
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NZstorm wrote:The roof of this apartment building has literally peeled off in the wind with insulation blowing all down the street. Just off Ponsonby Road. 4 Fire Appliances there and the Firemen don't know what to do!
Peak gust here at Auckland Airport was 53kts around 1730 this evening.
Lightning was reported as being visible to the south at 1900 however think it was probably powerlines arcing in the distance! No reports of CB activity or any deviations around weather which would normally be expected in these circumstances.
Wind not too bad here, Titirangi rd.
No rain for the last 2 hours.
Just back after a substation fault in Sabulite rd, West Auckland.
A few tree branches have fallen on powerlines and cause the odd feeder to trip and hence glitches on other circuits.
Large area in Glendene (Awaroa rd side) is without power at the moment. 33 kV blew into 11 kV and pothead exploded. No option to backfeed here.
Fireservice is quite busy on the North Shore and Whangaparoa, listening to the scanner.
86.5 km/h gust 70 km/h avearge and building.. 
