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Re: General February Weather

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There is a lot of moist air heading NZs way, expect a lot of cloud and showers over NZ during the next week.
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Re: General February Weather

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Few spits of rain here this evening.
If it does keep up we might get 0.01 mm this evening to end off a wet month. 8-o
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Re: General February Weather

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A wet February, with a total rainfall of 230mm recorded in Howick. Mean temperature of 20.6C, which makes it 1.3C cooler than January.
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A generally very wet and fairly cloudy Feb for most, but still quite warm in central and northern NZ.

Feb 2018 Climate Anomaly Maps ℅ NIWA.gif

Some very preliminary February 2018 figures for the main centres:

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Feb 2018 Average Temps, Rainfall, Sunshine and departures from 1981-2010 normals ℅ NIWA

Site                     T-max °C      T-min °C      T-mean °C     Rain mm      Sun hrs

Auckland, Mangere       24.4  +0.6    17.6  +1.4    21.0  +1.0    185  258%    147   75%
Auckland Aero           24.3  +0.2    18.0  +1.5    21.1  +0.8    149  209%
Tauranga Aero           24.4  +0.4    17.5  +2.0    21.0  +1.2    153  177%    n/a   n/a
Hamilton Aero           24.6  -0.1    14.8  +1.9    19.7  +0.9    203  274%
Hamilton, Ruakura       25.4  +1.1    14.1  +0.8    19.8  +1.0    184  263%    156   81%
Wellington, Kelburn     21.6  +1.0    15.3  +1.6    18.5  +1.3    171  242%    193   92%
Christchurch Aero       22.6  +0.7    12.1  +0.5    17.4  +0.6    121  281%    181   93%
Dunedin, Musselburgh    18.5   0.0    12.2  +0.7    15.4  +0.4    136  201%    143   91%
Greymouth Aero          20.8  +0.7    13.7  +1.1    17.3  +0.9    310  192%    187  105%
Edit: Corrected Greymouth temps

Other notable rainfalls include 302mm at Kerikeri Aero and 713 at Milford Sound Aero. A couple Tasman District high country sites also included 644mm in Takaka (760m) and 908mm at Anatoki (1300m).
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Kelburn missed out fairly narrowly on its warmest summer - the 90-day Tmean was about 0.06C lower than for 1934-35.
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Re: General February Weather

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I see NIWAr's Feb summary is out.
Nice to see Riccarton back in the nation's 'hot spot' :-w :-w
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