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Wild weather continues to plague the North Island, with approximately 2,000 lightning strikes recorded in the last two days.
Dramatic video captured by Aucklander Laura O’Gorman showed lightning striking the ground near her friend’s property in St. Heliers Monday night.
O’Gorman parked his Tesla Model S outside and went to pick up his five-year-old daughter when he heard “a massive boom.”
The car’s monitoring system captured the explosion.
TOM LEE / STUFF / Waikato Times
There were no strikes above Napier, although the wider Hawkes Bay region recorded 211 strikes in the past 24 hours.
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No one was injured, but the power went out on her friend’s property, she said.
MetService said there was a concentration of strikes in central Auckland on Monday afternoon, and more bad weather was coming.
“In the last 24 hours we have seen: 13 strikes in the Auckland region, 846 strikes in the North Island and 0 strikes in the South Island,” said a Met Service spokesman.
“During the last two days, it is estimated that we have had about 2,000 lightning strikes over the country.”
The worst of the weather bomb, of course, hit Napier, and the region was bracing for more rain after the “one-in-250-year flood.”
A rain watch was in place until 10 a.m. Wednesday.
There were no strikes above Napier specifically, although the wider Hawkes Bay region recorded 211 strikes in the past 24 hours, the Met Service said.
