UPDATE 6.09pm: Due to a slip SH25 is closed between 25A, Hikuai and Oputere Road. The road is expected to remain closed overnight.

"Delay your journey or consider an alternative route," says a Waka Kotahi NZTA spokesperson.

A full list of roads currently impacted by the weather can be found here.

EARLIER 4.53pm: Power has been restored to the 2,967 homes who lost supply between Whitianga and Coromandel at 7.50am due to the ongoing weather.

According to PowerCo, power was lost in the area due to "windblown vegetation" damaging the high voltage power equipment.

A tree down in Koutunui Road, Athenree is part of the ongoing chaos. Photo: Supplied/SunLive.

Wild weather has been battering the North Island since this morning, with heavy rain and strong winds impacting multiple roads and routes across the region.

"Flooded roads meant crews needed to use alternative, longer routes to reach the isolated fault site," says a PowerCo spokesperon.

"Thanks again to our customers on the upper Coromandel Peninsula for their patience and understanding as our teams worked hard to get power restored as quikcly and as safely as possible."

Image: MetService.

Tauranga's heavy rain warning is expected to stay in place from 2pm Friday November 11, to 3am Saturday November 12.

The Coromandel heavy rain warning is expected to stay in place from 2pm to 9pm tonight.

As the heavy rain moves south, Gisborne is expected to stay under a heavy rain warning from 2pm Friday November 11, to 6am Saturday, November 12.

For the full MetService list of weather warnings, click here.

EARLIER:

Thames-Coromandel District Council says due to rising water levels and concerns, the Albert Street bridge in Coromandel will be closed from 3pm today, until Monday November 14, when the bridge safety "will be reassessed'.

This comes as several other road closures have been reported in the region according to their Facebook.

Coromandel's CFM radio station reports flooding on SH25 near Wade Road was "around 10cm" above the level of the road, but has now since receded.

Hauraki Gulf Weather has also shared a video of a yacht washed ashore at Waitemata harbour.