NIWA summer summary

[RWood]

http://www.niwa.cri.nz/ncc/cs/seasonal/ ... _08_summer

Some of the info. in the main report is garbled but the PDF is OK.

[David]

I see there is a mistake for Chch's stats - sunshine was both '107% of normal' and 'below average' somehow.
Also worth noting that Chch was both the wettest and sunniest main centre for the Summer.

I think the average daily max. for summer I recorded (24.1) was quite high, rainfall was 189mm (average 63mm/month).
Surprised it was the warmest summer since 1998/9.

[RWood]

The summer of 2005/6 was only a little cooler than this one.

The wording "Summer sunshine hours and/or solar radiation were above normal in parts of Northland and Westland, and below normal in South Taranaki, and North Canterbury. Sunshine hours were near normal elsewhere." in the mian report body is wrong, it belongs to summer 2006/7! The PDF has a correct description.

Ch'ch was wettest because of February's high rainfall, and was a few hours ahead of W'gton in sunshine.

[tich]

The summer of 2005/6 was only a little cooler than this one.

That would've been due to the very warm December 2005 - January and February 2006 were near normal temperature-wise.

Ch'ch was wettest because of February's high rainfall

Actually only 1 wet week in mid February; the rest of the summer was drier than normal.

[janewaystv]

Printed out & read this summary last night, confusion on page 4 re "Temperature"

Wanaka Airport is described as recording its highest December temperature on record of 21.6oC - is this the mean or daily max? & if the max then surely the extreme "max" would be much higher than 21.6oC, & also it's described as happening on the 8th when the air temp fell to -1.7oC at Hamner Springs.

[RWood]

I checked the printed version for Dec 2007 - they mean the absolute max., and it's been corrected to 31.6C.

[janewaystv]

Gotcha, thanks