Minor flooding has hit parts of the country following heavy rain and weather warnings.
Firefighters were called out to Whitianga this afternoon with reports a woman could not leave her house due to flooding.
The situation did not appear to be so serious when the brigade arrived, Fire Service shift manager Jaron Phillips said.
He said the brigade did not "have any concerns" about the house being flooded, but there was a chance the garage could be flooded.
Other garages and basements have been flooded in areas around Auckland.
Auckland firefighters were heading to the Massey student accommodation block at Albany where water was about to enter the building.
There have also been call-outs to properties in Greenhithe, Blockhouse Bay, Mairangi Bay, Hillsborough and East Tamaki.
And a block of three units was flooded in Portadown Avenue, Pakuranga, the fire service tweeted.
The rainiest place in the country in the last 24 hours is the Coromandel Peninsula, where 120mm of rain has been recorded.
"That's certainly a lot of rain," MetService meteorologist Claire Flynn said.
Weather stations around Auckland have recorded between 30 and 50mm of rain over the past 24 hours.
Flynn said a weather warning for Auckland was now lifted, but there was still a weather watch out for the Bay of Plenty north-west of Tauranga which will continue through the rest of the day.
She said they were expecting levels of rain in the area "approaching warning criteria".
A severe weather warning would be in place for Gisborne from midnight to 6am, as 120-140mm of rain was forecast in the ranges.
Flynn said there was "patchy" rain over most of the North Island and about half of the South Island.
