Tauranga has taken a battering overnight with gale force winds tearing through the region and a severe weather warning of intense rain expected to fall this morning.
The warning was issued by the Metservice yesterday for last night and this morning in the Kaimai Range and the Bay of Plentywest of Matata.
A Metservice rain radar captures the incoming rain weather authorities have warned about this morning. Image/Metservice
In the hours of Monday 9pm to 2pm today, between 80 to 110mm of rain was expected to accumulate on top of what has already fallen in the Bay. Peak intensities of 15 to 25mm/hr were expected to fall this morning.
Tauranga firefighters were this morning called to an incident involving a roof lifting off a building on Dive Cres.
Senior station officer Neil Brown said firefighters helped put the repair the roof but said it was possible more reports of weather related incidents could be yet to come as people woke up and got to work.
Emergency services have also been called to reports of a roof lifting from a home in Papamoa.
