Rainfall, Rain Days, Dry Days 2013 - What are your Region's Stats.

[ato2]

Thanks for that, Rupert. My son is in Wellington and he has enjoyed the Sun, that is for sure.

[Suezy]

West Melton

We have had a very dry February with a total of 27.8mm in total.  This is made up of one day of 18.8 another of 8.6 and two days of 0.2 which could have been heavy dew.  Making a total of 27.8mm with 23 days of no rain.
On checking back I found that in 2010 we had a total of 23.8 mm making it a drier year than this one.
In 2011 we had 53.6 - 2012 a total of 36.8mm

[JennyLeez]

We over here on the East Coast in Wairoa have had an extremely non typical February.
Normally February is uncomfortably hot and our kids sweat it out when school resumes at the beginning of the month.
This February our temps have been well down, like wise sunshine hours. More like March conditions.
The last 10 odd days have been mainly cloudy, most days with a total cloud coverage yielding no precipitation at all.
In the last couple of weeks I have traveled to Gisborne, Napier and Hastings. Each visit the day has been hot and sunny but not Wairoa. We seem to have had our own personal cloud coverage

The rest of New Zealand have baked in the sun with high temps especially noticeable in the south Island. Very weird for us over here, it is normally us baking in the sun. I am not complaining though, these conditions are excellent just not the norm.

It is day 3 of drizzle weather for this area which again appears to be only over here. Napier remains dry although I see Gisborne also had rain yesterday of 4mm.

So what will March bring over here, April's conditions?

Footnote:
Our daily max temps have ranged from between 18 to 23 with the odd hotter day for the past 2 weeks. Well down.

[Weather Display]

looking like a return to easterlies and a high over central NZ for the next 10 days to 2 weeks, from tuesday

[Rwood]

No telling. In 1969 up your way (and throughout HB & Gisborne) Feb was very cloudy, and coolish. However March with light westerlies and highs in the right place brought the highest totals of sun ever recorded in March in NZ.

Southern HB was quite sunny in Feb - 242 hours at Waipawa.