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Sadly one person has drowned in floodwaters in the wairau valley , north auckland.

FYI for those who were wondering about Auckland Airport

Holy hell. We just put our daughter on an international flight yesterday arvo and left Auckland late this morning just as the rain was getting heavier, but had no idea it was going to turn into something like this. Talk about a near miss. Commiserations to those caught up in it...

Photo of the flooding at Pak n Save Glenfield.

JP. wrote: ↑Fri 27/01/2023 21:50 Photo of the flooding at Pak n Save Glenfield.

Wow!!!

Lots of good info on this live blog

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/weather- ... s-auckland

I must ask, where is the State of Emergency?? Surely that should have been declared hours ago?

I hate to talk about this during an event but I looked at the auckland forecast this morning on MS and from memory it was 76mm of rain forecast.

265mm here, rain has stopped and flood water levels are falling quickly thankfully. Next street over from here was hit very hard, people have probably lost everything with water knee deep through houses.

Looks like us slightly east dodged a bullet luckily. Got the heavy rain all day but missed that 100mm + in 1-2 hours to finish. Thinking of you all west of here.

harveyt86 wrote: ↑Fri 27/01/2023 21:10 Red warning just issued now from metservice.

By the time this was issued, most of the heavy rain had eased significantly.

ScottyD wrote: ↑Fri 27/01/2023 22:02

harveyt86 wrote: ↑Fri 27/01/2023 21:10 Red warning just issued now from metservice.

By the time this was issued, most of the heavy rain had eased significantly.

Rather late to the party that’s for sure.
Seriously poor comms by the Auckland Mayor too.

BeaconHill wrote: ↑Fri 27/01/2023 22:17

ScottyD wrote: ↑Fri 27/01/2023 22:02

By the time this was issued, most of the heavy rain had eased significantly.

Rather late to the party that’s for sure.
Seriously poor comms by the Auckland Mayor too.

Totally agree with this. There will be a number of reviews after this event I would imagine. Metservice, Auckland local government and emergency management. I know you can’t always predict the weather accurately but what’s the point in the red warning? It was far too late.

T-storms in the very outer Gulf atm.

I see Auckland Aero recorded 131mm in the 2 hrs to 9pm (twice its normal Jan rainfall).

Unbelievable...

A few photos from the Sandringham/Balmoral area, things got worse after these photos were taken.

A couple more photos

Just back from a 4 hour Community Patrol in New Lynn, Kelston, Greenbay area. The devastation is terrible, houses flooded, cars flooded on intersections, landslips. Got video footage, will upload on youtube tonight or tomorrow.

Rain again now. Looks like we might get one last whack here as it moves off to the east.

Low cloud and moderate to heavy rain in Hawkes Bay.
Expecting some surface flooding today.

Ended up with 113mm to midnight here yesterday (and still raining).

Top 5 MetService rainfall sites for yesterday (mm):
258 .. Auckland Airport
230 .. Whenuapai
121 .. Whitianga Airport
106 .. Whangaparaoa
95 ... Kaikohe

Several Akld Council central sites recorded over 280mm yesterday:

265mm here in 16hrs. Any flood water has gone from streets around here this morning.
Looks like there will be some brightness by afternoon with a dew point up to 22C and still a few showers around .The west looks favoured for a heavy shower.

Up to 120 at the southern end of lake Taupo. It’s still steady heavy rain now. How high will it go?


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A photo from my walk in the Domain this morning.

Big instability numbers modelled for tomorrow with upper level cooling but lacking convergence, a day to watch though.

Crazy stuff!!

This definitely isn't over, Bay of Plenty could well be in the firing line as suggested by ACCESS - showing over 500mm in parts up to Thursday.

ACCESS-G 12Z: ECMWF is a bit more conservative:

Links to a couple of YouTube videos showing extent and effects of the unprecedented rainfall.

Auckland flooding: Footage shows extent of damage, state of emergency declared - Stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvKOrMu3bJg [2:30]

State of emergency declared for Auckland - NZ Herald [8:13]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmXZIyHaK6c