The NZ Herald this morning in their article recording the severe storm during the early hours of this morning that the 'Heavens opened' with heavy rain across the Auckland region.
There was little warning of this ahead of this morning's downpour recorded by the Met Office as shown below with over 50mm of rain over just a few hours.
Sadly, these heavy downpours of rain not only cause flooding to people's homes and livelihoods but cause huge amounts of sediment to flow from inadequately protected development sites across the city into our streams, estuaries and ultimately into the Hauraki Gulf.