Highest dewpoints in the last 60 hours, excluding Raoul:tunster wrote: Sat 10/02/2018 11:11 On the weather front, tomorrow should see widespread 22C-23C dewpoints over Northland and Auckland. It will be interesting if anywhere reaches 24C. 24C is the highest dewpoint I've seen in NZ, but that's from memory not the record books. I wonder what the record high dewpoint is for NZ? (excluding Raoul Island).
Whakatane 24.0C
Gisborne 24.0C
Mahia 23.8C (elevated station: 136m high)
Kaitaia 23.8C
....the list goes on
Two curious readings I found are Wainuiomata and Lower Hutt. The former recorded a dewpoint of 23.6C yesterday afternoon while Lower Hutt actually would take the national record of 25C at the same time. There had been low cloud, some rain and northerlies during that period. Wellington Airport hit 22C, probably the highest dewpoint since 2011.
Some interesting combinations of temperature and dewpoint are in Auckland and Gisborne, the latter is currently 28/24. Those are genuine tropical conditions: when I was in Kerala during the SW monsoon last year, it was 28/24 mid-morning which felt incredibly refreshing compared with conditions like 36/27 which seems to be what Chennai gets everyday for half of the year.
