Weather: More than 18,000 lightning strikes in 12 hours as thunderstorms and wind pound western areas & More News Here

• A slow-moving winter storm is crawling over New Zealand, bringing warnings of heavy rain, massive hail, and winds as much as 130kph for the following few days.
• More than 18,000 lightning strikes had been recorded by MetService in the 12 hours to 9.30am on Sunday.
• Just about each western and northern space of the nation is prone to damaging thunderstorms on Sunday.
• Small tornados are potential in coastal areas.
• Snow continues to fall to 600m in the south.

More than 18,000 lightning strikes have been recorded on land and water round Aotearoa in 12 hours as a wild winter storm ramps up.

Bad climate is ready to proceed for a couple of extra days but as a vigorous trough strikes slowly over the motu.

Weather warnings and watches are in place for a lot of the nation on Sunday morning, with frequent thunderstorms anticipated in western and northern elements of New Zealand till 9pm.

MetService is warning of extra heavy rain, doubtlessly massive hail, sturdy squally wind gusts that might hit 130kph. Small tornados are additionally potential round coastal areas.

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Meteorologist Stephen Glassey stated the worst of the climate as much as 9.30am on Sunday morning had been concentrated in Queenstown, which had a 30mm downpour, and the West Coast of the South Island.

“In Westland and Eastern Bay of Plenty there’s been some very decent thunderstorms, they had quite a lot of lightning strikes early this morning.

“And there was a band of thunderstorms simply west of Auckland, however they weakened by the point they moved over land, so Auckland was spared a thunderstorm.

“I see there’s some more moving on to Northland in the coming hours however.”

Glassey stated the unstable nature of the storm might be summed up by the very fact there had been 18,039 lightning strikes recorded by MetService in the 12 hours to 9.30am.

The majority of these had been over water, with 1119 putting over land in the North Island and 256 putting land in the South Island.

Snow was falling in the south on Sunday morning above 600m and 400m in some remoted valleys, Glassey stated.

On Sunday morning MetService added an orange heavy rain warning for Kapiti-Horowhenua, Tararua, Wairarapa and Wellington.

An orange heavy rain warning was already in impact for Westland, south of Otira, on Sunday morning, with 150-200mm of rain anticipated. That rain meant there was a threat of rising waters in rivers and streams, floor flooding and slips.

An orange sturdy wind warning was additionally added on Sunday morning for Buller, Canterbury High Country, Marlborough, Wairarapa, Wellington and Westland. Gales may attain 130kph.

MetService forecaster Gerard Bellam​ stated there was extra to return early into subsequent week.

“We’ve got a smorgasbord of everything. You’ve got your heavy rain, severe gales, snow, thunderstorms, hail, big swells – certainly a memorable storm for early in winter.”

“We’ve got a deep low pressure system crossing the country during [Sunday] and Monday and the centre of that is over the south of the South Island.”

Fortunately, mostly everywhere else will stay relatively warm on Sunday.

“It’s not a classic cold outbreak with south-westerly flows, it’s more of an unstable westerly one at the moment, but it will go more southwest as we go into Monday, Tuesday.”

Large accumulations of snow had fallen on higher parts of the southern alps earlier in the week, but most heavy snow warnings were lifted on Saturday evening.

The Milford Rd was closed until Monday between Park Boundary to Chasm, where road crews expect one metre of snow to fall at the Homer Tunnel.

Winds of up to 130kph were predicted in the Marlborough Sounds, Wellington, Kāpiti Coast and southern parts of Wairarapa on Sunday, as well as Marlborough and the Kaikōura coast.

Westland, Buller and the Canterbury high country could expect gales from Sunday morning through to Monday afternoon.

Bellam said there will be no respite for western areas from the rolling thunderstorms that they have been experiencing in the last few days.

“A large part of the country are in the tracks of those thunderstorms, unfortunately.”

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