Several schools have closed and some people have been moved to safer areas due to floods in New Zealand’s capital city.
Heavy rain and flash flooding has drenched Wellington, causing the government to declare a state of emergency.
Footage online shows vehicles submerged in flooded streets, trees uprooted and houses hit by landslides.
Flash floods are floods that happens very quickly in low-lying land, and they’re usually caused by very heavy rain, or when water can’t be absorbed quickly enough.
Wellington was soaked with a record 77mm (3in) of rain in less than an hour on Monday, said its mayor Andrew Little.