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Official Hamilton Airpost observations:
Tmax: 23c
Tmin: 2c
Rainfall: 182.4mm

Cool, wet, windy and thundery at first, then unsettled and cloudy, then some more rain, extended fine warm spell, late thunderstorms yesterday

Havelock North Rainfall: October 2005
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Total for month: 178mm (on 19 days)
Average for month: 50mm
Total for October 2004: 65mm
Maximum 24hrs: 72mm (on the 21st)
Total from 1 January: 776mm (on 133 days)
Average from 1 January: 665mm
Total to date last year: 680mm

First fornight was ****(W mostly then before the fine spell the even worse SW),the rest was a lot better

my summary:
http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb ... out10.html
still working on that new format, nearly finished

October 2005 Waimauku, Auckland
Maximum Temperature: 25.1°C (Tuesday 25 October)
Lowest Maximum: 15.8 °C (Wednesday 05 October)
Minimum Temperature: 7.0 °C (Sunday 23 October)
Highest Minimum: 13.6°C (Sunday 02 October)
Total Rainfall: 174.0 mm
Days with rain: 18 out of 31 days
Most rain: 35.0 mm (Monday 24 October)
Highest pressure: 1029 mb (Thursday 27 October)
Lowest pressure: 990 mb (Saturday 08 October)

Rainfall year to date: 909.8 mm

From my station in Templeton:

Average temp: 11.2 °C

Max temperature: 25.5 °C (27th)
Average max: 15.9 °C

Min temperature: 0.4 °C (7th)
Average min: 6.7 °C

Rainfall: 35.6 mm (on 9 days)
Max rain: 12.0 mm (8th)
Year to date: 346.0 mm

From my station in Alexandra

Average temp: 12.6

Max temperature: 27.5 °C (26th)
Average max: 20.3 °C

Min temperature: -2.0 °C (6th)
Average min: 5.2 °C

Growing degree days 90 (1/10/05 - 30/4/06)

Rainfall: 32 mm (on 4 days)
Max rain: 21 mm (20th)
Year to date: 281 mm

Cool start, but improving towards the end of the month

Highlight was 21mm of heavy rain on the night of 20th, with thunder and lightening to boot !

Nelson Summary
Max 21C, year 28.5C.
Min 3C, year, -2.5C.
Only 31.8mm of rain, Average 91.1mm
We are 267.2mm below average.
Year 468.7mm.

Maitai Valley Summary (E Nelson in hills)
Max 23.5C, Year: 32C.
Min -1C, Year -5C.
58.5mm for month, One thunderstorm caused the heavyst rain i've ever seen! (15mm in 15mins). 1 Lightning bolt was 100m (approx) from my house.
564mm for year.

NIWA Oct. summary:

http://www.niwascience.co.nz/ncc/cs/0510sum.pdf

RWood wrote:NIWA Oct. summary:

http://www.niwascience.co.nz/ncc/cs/0510sum.pdf

JohnGaul
NZTS
Thanks for that
PDF much better to read, much better than their website