Weather

Parts of Northland are cleaning up after the soggy weekend and last week's huge rainstorm

The cleanup has begun after a flash flood ripped through West Auckland, inundating hundreds of houses and immersing cars. Video

Heavy rain is creating havoc, flooding houses and causing slips in Auckland and surface flooding in Wellington. Here's what you need to know.

An Air New Zealand flight had to diverted after it was struck by lightning.

There has been landslips in the Wellington suburb of Newtown and surface flooding in Hutt Valley and Mana as the torrential rain moves south.

Aucklanders have met calls to save water but the city's supplier says that needs to be sustained.

Music festival attendees had to help others from being swept downstream in chest-high water, when the banks of the river behind the event split late last night.

A man has had to be rescued from his flooded car, a music festival has been partly evacuated and roads have closed in the Coromandel after record-breaking rainfalls.

Heavy rain overnight has caused evacuations, flooding and road closures. Here's a list of what is affecting the north of the country.

A record amount of rain has fallen in Auckland as a deluge hits the upper North island tonight, cutting power and bringing down a cliff on Waiheke Island.

A New Zealand authority on climate change says the storm afflicting the north of the country is typical of worldwide weather patterns.

John McDowell manages a large sheep and beef farm at Orere Point south east of Auckland. It is scarred with slips following 220 millimetres of rain in just 12 hours this week.

If Aucklanders fail to reduce daily water usage due to issues caused by this week's rainfall, a boil water notice will be needed, warns Watercare. Video