April 19, 2025 • 2 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
On the newstalk's Edby Newsroom. This is newsfecs. In this update,
intense rainfall remains on the cards for several parts of
New Zealand. Met Services lifted the red thunderstorm warning for
parts of Auckland. However, the region remains under a thunderstorm
watch for a further hour. Electricity company Vector says nearly
twenty thousand Auckland homes have their power back on after
(00:26):
losing it in last night's surprise storm. Auckland Emergency Management
General Manager Adam Maggs says the region is likely in
for more wild weather. We've always got now at the
tail of that system passing through in these very unpredictable
thunderstorm systems and Met Service has also issued heavy rain
warnings for Taranaki and Tasman Gisban, and a handful of
(00:47):
other areas in the north of the South Island are
under watchers. A meteorologist says met Service could have warned
Auckland as earlier about last night's intense storms if they
shared data. Central Auckland communities were flooded, twenty thousand homes,
as you heard, were without power and seven hundred and
fifty lightning strikes were recorded. Mount Albert's New Worlds closed
(01:09):
today because some eight centimeters of water flooded. The store.
Met Service says it could only issue a severe thunderstorm
warning around midnight because storms are notoriously hard to predict,
but whether watchers Philip Duncan says the storm had been
developing quite clearly on the rain radar and lightning maps.
If we had open data that would allow councils and
(01:30):
other government agencies in the private sector to all be
allowed to use rain radar, then automatic warnings would be
allowed to be pushed to phones. Volunteer numbers in New
Zealand are rising. New data show more than half of
US volunteer and we averaged about eighteen hours in the
four weeks before the survey. That's an increase of two
point three percent from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three.
(01:52):
Volunteering New Zealand Research director doctor Johann go says it
is common for societal challenges to inspire people to help
about each other. Doctor Gough says it's a chance to
look at community needs and realize that we're all in
this boat together. That's news. In sport, Warriors halfback Luke
Metcalf's bracing for a tricky night with the Boot when
(02:14):
they play the Brisbane Broncos in Leagues NRL at Mount
Smart Stadium. A severe thunderstorm watch is in place for
the city after last night's delude stretching out from the
center of ex tropical Cyclone Tam Metcalf says, whatever the
elements provide come kick off at half past seven, it's
the same for both teams. The Fiji and Drewer have
had their second win of the Super Rugby Pacific season.
(02:35):
They've beaten the Waratas twenty eight to fourteen in La Toco.
The Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball season has come to an end.
They've been beaten one hundred and twenty to one hundred
and six by the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference
play in Match That's Sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news,
listen to News Talk Said Be Live on iHeartRadio.
On the newstalk's Edby Newsroom. This is newsfecs. In this update,
intense rainfall remains on the cards for several parts of
New Zealand. Met Services lifted the red thunderstorm warning for
parts of Auckland. However, the region remains under a thunderstorm
watch for a further hour. Electricity company Vector says nearly
twenty thousand Auckland homes have their power back on after
(00:26):
losing it in last night's surprise storm. Auckland Emergency Management
General Manager Adam Maggs says the region is likely in
for more wild weather. We've always got now at the
tail of that system passing through in these very unpredictable
thunderstorm systems and Met Service has also issued heavy rain
warnings for Taranaki and Tasman Gisban, and a handful of
(00:47):
other areas in the north of the South Island are
under watchers. A meteorologist says met Service could have warned
Auckland as earlier about last night's intense storms if they
shared data. Central Auckland communities were flooded, twenty thousand homes,
as you heard, were without power and seven hundred and
fifty lightning strikes were recorded. Mount Albert's New Worlds closed
(01:09):
today because some eight centimeters of water flooded. The store.
Met Service says it could only issue a severe thunderstorm
warning around midnight because storms are notoriously hard to predict,
but whether watchers Philip Duncan says the storm had been
developing quite clearly on the rain radar and lightning maps.
If we had open data that would allow councils and
(01:30):
other government agencies in the private sector to all be
allowed to use rain radar, then automatic warnings would be
allowed to be pushed to phones. Volunteer numbers in New
Zealand are rising. New data show more than half of
US volunteer and we averaged about eighteen hours in the
four weeks before the survey. That's an increase of two
point three percent from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three.
(01:52):
Volunteering New Zealand Research director doctor Johann go says it
is common for societal challenges to inspire people to help
about each other. Doctor Gough says it's a chance to
look at community needs and realize that we're all in
this boat together. That's news. In sport, Warriors halfback Luke
Metcalf's bracing for a tricky night with the Boot when
(02:14):
they play the Brisbane Broncos in Leagues NRL at Mount
Smart Stadium. A severe thunderstorm watch is in place for
the city after last night's delude stretching out from the
center of ex tropical Cyclone Tam Metcalf says, whatever the
elements provide come kick off at half past seven, it's
the same for both teams. The Fiji and Drewer have
had their second win of the Super Rugby Pacific season.
(02:35):
They've beaten the Waratas twenty eight to fourteen in La Toco.
The Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball season has come to an end.
They've been beaten one hundred and twenty to one hundred
and six by the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference
play in Match That's Sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news,
listen to News Talk Said Be Live on iHeartRadio.
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