Severe weather in the Wellington region has been a distant memory for the past few months. Luckily, after an extremely wet spring, summer has been unremarkable, meaning that those in the region have enjoyed a number of the warm windless days that Wellingtonians live in the area for.

The calm came to an abrupt halt on the morning of Wednesday 2nd March when torrential rain fell in the area causing significant flooding. The MetService, located in Wellington's central suburb of Kelburn, recorded 10mm of rain in just 4 minutes! Additionally, within a 2 hour period, over half the monthly average for May was recorded in Wellington. Further details can be found here

The rain caused a number of accidents along with several slips in the region.

Further up the Hutt Valley, where the Maungaraki weather station is located, just 17mm of rain was recorded in the same period, indicating how patchy the heavy rainfall was.