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and particularly around the auckland area by a zone of convergent winds. and those winds squeezed together to create a line of thunderstorms thatjust happened to go straight across the auckland area bringing that torrential rain. there is slightly better news for auckland on the cards as we head through wednesday and into thursday because that same zone of convergence is going to be pushing east which means the heaviest rain, 100 millimetres, will be falling around the bay of plenty where we could see some flooding but at least through thursday it should be a little drier in auckland. well, we can speak now to rachael kelleher, who's the duty controller at auckland emergency management in auckland. great to get you on the programme in the first instance but give us a sense of how the operations, the effort to rescue people, is going right now where you are? we were fortunate overnight _ right now where you are? we were fortunate overnight that _ right now where you are? we were fortunate overnight that the - right now where you are? we were fortunate overnight that the rain i fortunate overnight that the rain that we had was not as bad as what we saw last friday, which certainly has been devastating. but what we had overnight moved through from the
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