Auckland Weather and Rain Update

Well it's almost situation normal. It's winter and it's raining.
So I won't do any more blogs about this for a while.
Last time I blogged was Saturday 22nd May. It had started raining hard.
The NZ Herald rain gauges indicated that 197mm had fallen for the 2010 year.
That was just 50% of average rainfall that is recorded for that period.

Since then it has rained a lot.
Today, 15th June, NZ Herald has recorded 367mm.
That means 367-197mm has fallen since 22 May. 170mm in fact.
That's a lot of rain in 3 weeks. Feels like it doesn't it.

According to Granny Herald, average June rainfall to date is 52mm, but we've had 97mm.
That's almost double the average rainfall for June.

Overall for the year, to 15th June, Herald reports average rainfall is 454mm.
We have now had 367mm. That's 80% of average.

Quite a change from a month ago when Auckland was sitting on 35% of average rainfall, and was experiencing the driest four month period on record.