Auckland faces ‘dangerous’ amount of rain after four killed in floods

An excavator clears debris at a home badly damaged by flooding and landslides in Auckland (Alex Burton/New Zealand Herald via AP)

A dangerous amount of rain is forecast on Tuesday for New Zealand’s most populous city four days after Auckland had its wettest day on record in a storm that claimed four lives.

A state of emergency was declared on Friday when a volume of rain that would typically fall over an entire Southern Hemisphere summer hit in a single day.