General February Weather

[spwill]

A clip from Friday in the Waikato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBWRsh_FLj0

[Nev]

A mostly dry, mild and sunny February overall…

Feb 2015 Climate Anomaly Map ℅ NIWA.gif

Some very preliminary February 2015 figures for the main centres:

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Feb 2015 Average Temps, Rainfall and departures from their 1981-2010 normals ℅ NIWA

Site                      T-max °C       T-min °C       T-mean °C    Rainfall mm

Auckland, Mangere        24.6  +0.8     16.1  -0.1     20.4  +0.4      28   39% 
Auckland Aero            24.3  +0.2     16.1  -0.4     20.2  -0.1      38   53% 
Tauranga Aero            24.1  +0.1     15.2  -0.3     19.6  -0.2      44   51%
Hamilton Aero            25.1  +0.4     11.7  -1.2     18.4  -0.4      47   63% 
Hamilton, Ruakura        25.3  +1.0     12.9  -0.4     19.1  +0.3      45   64% 
Wellington, Kelburn      20.4  -0.2     13.2  -0.5     16.8  -0.4      33   47% 
Christchurch Aero        22.8  +0.9     10.2  -1.4     16.5  -0.3      11   27% 
Dunedin, Musselburgh     18.4  -0.1     10.9  -0.6     14.7  -0.3      59   87%

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Slightly cooler here in February with only one day exceeding 30C ( 1st ) as compared to 4 days last month.
Overnight minimums down too with a minimum of 2.2c recorded on the 9th.
a total of 19.5mm of rain for the month, with 9mm of it falling in the early hours of the 22nd.

[Nev]

Bit more info on Thursday evening's spouts…

'VIDEO: Tornados rumble through the Bay' - SunLive

So it looks like there were at least 7 waterpouts spotted around Tauranga Harbour between 6:30pm and 8:30pm on Thursday evening, with at least one making landfall.

And according to this report, another tornado blew through Papamoa shortly after 10am on Saturday morning, damaging several house roofs .

'Ceiling collapses in freak storm' - Bay of Plenty Times

[Nev]

Here's NIWA's preliminary, 'February 2015 National Climate Summary'.

A dry month in the east of both Islands and widespread dry soils.


The national average temp of 17.0C was 0.2C below normal.

The month's highest temp of 33.5C was recorded at Waiau (North Canterbury) on the 1st, and the lowest of -1.5C was recorded at Ranfurly on the 26th.