State of emergency declared - Wellington floods and landslips

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#324518 20-Apr-2026 16:02

"State of emergency declared after flash flooding hits Wellington, more severe weather expected"

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/weather-live-updates-flash-flooding-hits-wellington-more-severe-weather-expected/EC3Y2LD4QRC6HLMIS7KLTC5XIU/

Keep safe. Don't take any chances with land movement.

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#3482589 20-Apr-2026 16:54

Horrendous amount of damage everywhere. places that were never a problem suddenly deluged.

That rain is persisting down and a real concern with sodden ground that can give way. My leaking windows are the least of my worries, we live on a hillside and I can see the water is just not draining away fast enough and pooling.

Dentist got flooded, waited all weekend for it to open and get an appointment, now unlikely while cleanup is happening. Toothache relegated to the it can wait list.

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#3482590 20-Apr-2026 17:03

According to MetService, Wellington Central has had about 60mm of rain today. But there must be local areas which had much more to cause so much flooding and damage?

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#3482591 20-Apr-2026 17:09

cddt:

According to MetService, Wellington Central has had about 60mm of rain today. But there must be local areas which had much more to cause so much flooding and damage?

Yeah, there was some very localised heavy rain around 5am ,

The Regional council weather station in Berhampore recorded 77mm between 4-5am then another 18mm until 6am

https://graphs.gw.govt.nz/envmon/daily-climate-maps?view=rainfall-table

most of the flooding drained away reasonably quickly - But the damage was done,
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360967368/wellington-man-awoken-flooding-describes-worst-rain-he-has-seen-city

Also compounded by High tide being at 7am this morning, so outflows to sea would have been restricted and impacted by an incoming tide,

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#3482594 20-Apr-2026 17:21

cddt: According to MetService, Wellington Central has had about 60mm of rain today. But there must be local areas which had much more to cause so much flooding and damage?

The link in first post shows "Severe thunderstorm warning for Carterton and Masterton" 3:30pm to 4:30pm. Looks like there is a lot going on sometimes very localized weather warnings.