In pictures and video: Early winter storm sweeps through country
Tuesday, 10 April 2018
Widespread power outages, trees down on cars and houses, and powerlines fallen.
A storm is wreaking havoc across the country, bringing high winds, rain and tornados to the North Island and dumping snow in the South Island.
Here are some of the photos and videos from the storm.
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Taranaki has been hardest hit by the storm, while freezing temperatures mean snow down south.Time lapse of New Plymouth foreshore during stormA herd of cows huddle together in the snow west of Springfield on Tuesday. An overnight storm has caused a major scaffolding to collapse at a Hobsonville Point building site.The gusts that struck Auckland were the equivalent of a Category 2 cyclone, and caused widespread damage.A yacht washed up on shore at Stanley Point after the storm. Storm damage in Rahotu.Damage left after a tornado hit National Park Village on Tuesday.The community gets together to clean up a tree which has fallen onto a car and blocked Lauderdale St in Birkdale on Auckland's North Shore at 10.30pm Tuesday.A huge tree is downed on Ranleigh St, Mt Albert in Auckland.A fallen tree blocks Market Rd in Auckland's Epsom during high winds.A huge liquid amber uprooted and fell on a house on the waterfront in Bayswater on Auckland's North Shore in Tuesday night's huge storm.This trampoline had never moved in a storm before Tuesday's storm hit.The sun room at this Auckland home is worse for wear after brutal high winds. A winter storm passes over Auckland overnight causing widespread damage across the city. Scafolding collapsed at a building site in Hobsonville Point.Fallen tree at bus stop near K road / Ponsonby Road intersection, Auckland, following a large overnight storm. A car on Zane Martin's property in Oratia is a write-off after a tree fell during the storm. His neighbour's house was hit by the same cluster of trees. A fallen tree on the corner of Ponsonby Rd and Karangahape Rd in Auckland after the storm last night.Cars get stuck in the hail on on Bing Lucas Drive in Tawa, north of Wellington, on Wednesday afternoon..This gum tree came down and narrowly missed Pauline Banks' Henderson Valley home.Auckland's Birkdale suburb was hit heavily in the storm last night. Two cars have been hit by fallen tress, within a few kilometres of each other.
