Winter has arrived

The wild weather over the weekend looks to be a harbinger of things to come.

MetService says that as the low pressure system finally pulled away to the east of New Zealand cold showers would take its place.

The North Island is set to fare only slightly better than the South Island with Wellington temperatures staying in the low teens and Auckland getting down to single digits at night most nights this week.

Skiers should be rejoicing as ski fields are also likely to get a healthy top-up this week, with snow showers forecast down to around 1000 metres and an icy blast set to hit the country tomorrow.

Network summary for week ending 29 May 2016

Electricity

The inclement weather last week meant the high number of car v pole incidents continued. There were eight in Papatoetoe, Remuera, Manurewa, Waimauku, Milford, Mt Wellington, Pt Chevalier and Te Atatu. There was also a car v pillar incident in Onehunga.

Vector crews were asked to attend four house/building fires in Albany, Milford, Papatoetoe and Matakana. This was to isolate the electricity/gas supply for safety, as requested by the Fire Service.

Gas

Third party contractors caused damage to our gas networks in New Lynn, Remuera and Weymouth.

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