Flooding in January

On Friday 28 January, Auckland experienced an extreme amount of rain. Areas all over the city were flooded, and the entire region was put into a state of emergency due to the amount of damage. Auckland had 8x its normal January rainfall, and since it's summer it was warm as well as wet.

I nearly couldn't get home from work that day as the train station I live by flooded. Things seem to be OK for the moment, but it's likely that there'll be more rain yet.