South west Island thunderstorms: Emergency teams mobilised in Taranaki, clean up underway

Heavy rain caused flash pouring into and road closures in Better Plymouth. Photo / New Plymouth District Council

Some more thunderstorms are likely across the North Area today as a clean up is ongoing in towns and cities swamped in yesterday’s tropical-fuelled deluge.

An emergency response lineup remains mobilised in New Plymouth this morning after parts of the Taranaki city disappeared under water but also sewage spilled into waterways.

MetService forecasters would be warning there may be a few more thunderstorms up for grabs this afternoon as the low-pressure system taken out away to the east of the with your.

They were supposed would rumble over Taupō, Manawatū combined with Tararua District.

A heavy rain watch remains installed for Taranaki north of Eltham, with the threat of heavy precipitate creating further problems for already sodden areas.

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The particular eastern Indian Ocean has the country’s fingerprints on New Zealand’s outstanding pattern from Sunday into as soon as possible next week.

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— NIWA Weather (@NiwaWeather) November 25, 2020

Some New Plymouth roads are generally closed and people are being warned use swim or eat kai originally from waterways after widespread flooding and then sewerage overflows in the district.

There are now public notifications in place for the region’s beaches beyond Ngāmotu through to Bell Block after sewage overflows.

The cloudburst also saw in the middle of Te Awamutu under water by shopkeepers faced with ruined stock seeing that floodwaters poured into stores filling the main street.

The Te Awamutu Library shut down its doors to the public not long ago after floodwaters washed through the by yourself storey building.

MetService said New Plymouth to Whanganui airports saw more showers in a single 18-hour period than they were doing in all of last November.

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— MetService (@MetService) November 25, 2020

The New Plymouth District Council informed us over 100mm of rain fell at the Brooklands Zoo in half of the day.

The authorities said the city’s aging consuming network was in stemmed from the maintained cloudburst that saw 80mm pertaining to rain fell in five hours intensified the city’s ageing water interact.

The council says crews on the ground were now being focused on cleaning up rain-related debris and drainage issues.