Buller Civil Defence has set up its Emergency Operations Centre to deal with the wild weather hitting the region.
A neighborhood in Waikanae has been in clean-up mode today after two tornadoes hit the town overnight.
At Piha beach on Auckland's west coast, waves have been getting up to 9m high.
High winds have caused the Auckland harbour bridge to open and close several times today. And there's been more than a hundred thousand lightning strikes in seven days.
MetService duty forecaster Lee Matheson joins Lisa Owen with the details.
