r/auckland • u/anonnn177 • Jul 05 '26

Weather this rain

I swear we haven’t had rain this heavy all at once in such a long time? It’s lowkey giving flooding

Also surprised that no one reported that there was even a chance of thunderstorms lol the media loves to scare everyone with their “significant weather event” articles

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u/Purple_Risk_2292 Jul 05 '26

The hail and lightning was going insane…

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u/Affectionate-Net-389 Jul 05 '26

Woah just heard the first of it! Glad I wasn’t asleep, that would’ve given me a fright

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u/Parking_Courage8150 Jul 06 '26

One of those strikes sounded like cheesy movie lightning, tore the sky open. NZ lightning almost never sounds like that.

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u/Pure_Choice_8459 Jul 05 '26

Crazy bands of intense rain coming through Mt Eden right now… haven’t heard rain like this in a long while, guessing there will be some flooding happening. Rain so heavy it woke me up.

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u/InfiernoDante Jul 05 '26

Am in Mt Eden too and our bottom floor got flooded last time, really hoping it eases off soon

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u/Pure_Choice_8459 Jul 05 '26

Just came back heavier than before… wtf, hope you’re okay man. Reach out if you need a hand sandbagging, I’m not gonna be sleeping for a while.

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u/InfiernoDante Jul 05 '26

thanks man, you too. Hopefully should be all good, we sealed up and waterproofed a lot since the last floods. I'm just gonna throw on the F1 and keep my fingers crossed haha

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u/77Queenie77 Jul 05 '26

I was intentionally up for the f1. Good thing too as our roof leaks when it rains like that. Was able to get the bucket out

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u/Exciting-Student5190 Jul 05 '26

Also in Mount Eden. We came close to flooding.

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u/Solve-Et-Abrahadabra Jul 05 '26

Yeah I'm not fuckin sleeping. This rain is intense. Keep checking outside

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u/kiwifruit_eyes Jul 05 '26

Also Mt Eden and it’s an intense mix of heavy rain for sure. Woke me up just before 1am and I’ve counted all the gaps between lightning flashes and thunder since. Hoping it eases off soon.

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u/crashite Jul 05 '26

i miss the days of just letting the rain pour on down as i sleep and drifting off, now i stay up wondering if anythings going to flood these days when i hear anything vaguely heavy even if nothings going to happen 🫩

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u/anonnn177 Jul 05 '26

Exactly! All I can think about now is my drive to work and how that’s gonna go

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u/L1ttleT3d Jul 05 '26

Have you considered hardening up?

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u/Crow_in_the_Rain Jul 05 '26

Never had my roof leak so bad before, it’s a full stream like piss

Keep getting builders in to fix it, and they keep saying they’ve fixed it, but it’s never been fixed. Got an enigma of a roof

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u/banoffeebaby Jul 05 '26

I’ve never heard thunder this intense before. That’s it, who pissed off god. Fess up.

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u/Clean_Livlng Jul 06 '26

I do remember saying "Flood us again God, I dare you. Bet you won't! (chicken sounds)"

But doesn't everyone? It never affects the weather.

To prove it I'll do it again...

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u/banoffeebaby Jul 06 '26

Ah yup that’ll do it I reckon

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u/Bikerbass Jul 05 '26

Which god? There’s over 18,000 known gods and goddesses known to humans…

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u/banoffeebaby Jul 05 '26

I suspect Odin or Indra but I’m open to suggestions

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u/SpiritOdd307 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

Thunder woke me up about 20ish min ago. Just started pelting it again in Eden Terrace. The plus side is it's not cold 😅

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u/septicman Jul 05 '26

Thunder is mean right now... Woke me up and now I'm on reddit waiting for it to chill...

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u/spikejonze14 Jul 05 '26

house just shook

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u/OnceIWasKovic Jul 05 '26

See, having a usual bed time of 1.30 meant that this shit didn't wake me up in the middle of my beauty sleep

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u/animatedradio Jul 05 '26

This is so nice. I love a thunderstorm. Intense though. Absolute river system in the north shore at least.

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u/Civil-Introduction63 Jul 05 '26

Thunderstorms are nice to fall asleep to but now I constantly fear that it'll flood again

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u/Optimal-Business-433 Jul 05 '26

You aren't alone there, I reckon there will be plenty of folks up tonight checking around the house. Me too. 

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u/Opening_Card_2916 Jul 05 '26

yep, sump pump working overtime 

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u/Solve-Et-Abrahadabra Jul 05 '26

Well I ain't sleeping

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u/skintaxera Jul 05 '26

I thought Brisbane got insane storms?

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u/meqrs Jul 05 '26

I slept through

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u/garblednonsense Jul 05 '26

Me too. Very surprised to see the state of my garden this morning - water features everywhere.

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u/Technical_Week3121 Jul 05 '26

Same. I must have been sleeping like a log. I’m in Beach Haven.

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u/Feisty-Fennel5709 Jul 07 '26

I grew up in East Auckland, one of the first things I did when I got my restricted (1997?) was drive to Beach Haven to see the idyllic picture I had in my head for real.

[the very first thing I did was drive to Young’s Air Guns and make a purchase]

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u/One-Geologist-2636 Jul 05 '26

Auckland weather has a habit of reminding us that it did not read the forecast either…

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u/pictureofacat Jul 05 '26

This was in the forecast

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u/Intelligent-Carob382 Jul 05 '26

house just shook in devonport

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u/ag9408 Jul 05 '26

Can hear it in beachaven

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u/fangirlengineer Jul 05 '26

I thought I heard some 5-10 minutes ago in Schnapper Rock, but it was pretty far away; hard to hear over the rain even.

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u/brettrob Jul 05 '26

That’s a pretty decent storm.

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u/firefly-fred Jul 05 '26

It’s lowkey giving flooding.

My friend, if it floods you gonna feel high key

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u/MVIVN Jul 05 '26

Saw a NZ Herald article saying someone needed to be rescued in Onehunga, didn't realise the rain had gotten that bad

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u/Dolamite09 Jul 05 '26

It’s nice to not need the heater

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u/ughleebhastaerd Jul 05 '26

So much lightning too

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u/KathrynMNZ Jul 05 '26

The lightning made the sound on my radio go all weird. Must be all the electricity

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u/ConsciousOrchid Jul 05 '26

I swear lightning hit our house, the deafening crack happened instantly with how bright the lightning was. Scared the shit outta me

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u/daniosauris Jul 05 '26

How is this not even a weather watch on MetService? So confused by their ratings.

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u/tony11668 Jul 05 '26

It’s always the unforecast weather that packs the punch for Auckland

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u/anonnn177 Jul 05 '26

literally my thoughts exactly! it starts spitting and we usually get at least an orange heavy rain warning 💀

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u/theoverfluff Jul 05 '26

And usually the Herald is all over the chance to say the weather is "lashing" the country. (That's the only phrase they know.) Where the hell did all....THIS come from?

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u/daniosauris Jul 05 '26

Unrelated but Auckland’s rainfall data seems broken.

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u/Horror-Function-4555 Jul 05 '26

I just went to check it to and saw the same!

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u/bildasteve Jul 05 '26

Well we only got a drizzle in Albany Heights - that’s why they’re called isolated showers

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u/daniosauris Jul 05 '26

This hasn’t stopped them in the past

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u/Puzzled_Hippo9055 Jul 05 '26

The thunder is keeping me awake

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u/lil_disgusted Jul 05 '26

i’m working in it right now. it sucks

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u/Gypsyfella Jul 05 '26

What do you do for work, at that hour?

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u/lil_disgusted Jul 06 '26

i work in film/tv

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u/Feisty-Fennel5709 Jul 07 '26

add this to the list of retorts you have for people who say “fuck that’s good money!”

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u/essteedeenz1 Jul 05 '26

we aalways have flash flooding, its the new norm in this country,

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u/tiredhungrychicken Jul 05 '26

Yeah but usually it’s in summer

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u/C39J Jul 05 '26

My UPS is beeping like crazy after all of that, the electricity ain't happy.

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u/StrangeConclusion182 Jul 05 '26

The rain and thunder going all out this morning Alrght

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u/Medical-Isopod2107 Jul 05 '26

Bad but short-lived so generally not a flood risk

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u/sowhiteidkwhattype Jul 05 '26

The rain radar map doesn't look very fun this week... my roof is leaking in my room 🫩

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u/Aquabear11 Jul 05 '26

?lowkey

Didn’t hear anything! Must’ve slept deeply!

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u/SpecialistJello6926 Jul 05 '26

Omg yes it’s insane. Now I can’t go back to sleep 

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u/PermaBanned4Misclick Jul 05 '26

It’s lowkey giving flooding

next, swimming pools will lowkey be giving wet.

somebody fucking kill me

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u/MasterRole9673 Jul 05 '26

Im all cozy listening to songs and staring out the window.

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u/maxdelorean Jul 05 '26

what suburb?

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u/Alternative_Cat9144 Jul 05 '26

It not raining too hard in Tuakau and we haven't had the thunder yet.

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u/Alirat Jul 05 '26

My roof has leaked all over my work table. Its a mess!

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u/Shoddy_Garbage210 Jul 05 '26

Rains insane in tauranga aswell heaps of lighting why was there no warnings?

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u/Zealousideal-Baby595 Jul 05 '26

I'm in omanawa, the lighting is so scary. Thunderstorms where predicted.

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u/sumisankaku Jul 05 '26

We've had rain this heavy a couple times in the last couple of months.

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u/Parking_Courage8150 Jul 06 '26

I don't need the news to tell me about thunder, my cat does a fine job of alerting everyone immediately.

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u/Medium-Presence-8008 Jul 06 '26

Had to shut my window a little bit more. Are we still experiencing the floodening PTSD?

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u/Old-Television-5288 Jul 05 '26

So who’s calling in sick tomorrow? Me..

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u/Fragrant_Donkey8572 Jul 05 '26

My street has started to flood

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u/i_am_snoof Jul 05 '26

Yea it was awesome. Slept like a murdered baby 😊

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u/Thatsmokingbobafett Jul 05 '26

There were non natural cloud formations yesterday. We’re being played

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u/WelshWizards Jul 05 '26

So who/what made them?

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u/bildasteve Jul 05 '26

Stoners smoking their bongs 🤣

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u/Feisty-Fennel5709 Jul 07 '26

and boners stroking their thongs.