A MetService severe thunderstorm warning for Wellington has been lifted as residents report torrential rain engulfing parked cars and causing flooding.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency said it had no weather-related callouts from Saturday morning’s downpours.<\/p>\n
Wellington woman Rebekah Ward said she watched floodwaters rise around parked cars during the monsoon-like rain.<\/p>\n
The health coach and tour guide watched floodwaters surge down Wellington’s Tinakori Road while having breakfast in Thorndon.<\/p>\n
The water rose to the bottom of parked cars and even knocked over a scooter, prompting fears her own vehicle could be swept away, she said.<\/p>\n
The timing of the downpour was an “ironic” reminder of the monsoon she would soon experience on a trip to India, Ward said.<\/p>\n
MetService issued the severe thunderstorm warning at 9.20am Saturday, valid until just before 11am.<\/p>\n
It said its weather radar had detected severe thunderstorms moving east-northeast.<\/p>\n
It expected the thunderstorms to be accompanied by torrential rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MetService severe thunderstorm warning for Wellington has been lifted as residents report torrential rain engulfing parked cars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-542859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}