Croppers won't break into a smile anytime soon after yesterday's persistent drizzle and neither will cricket tragics but the irony isn't lost on Hawke's Bay Federated Farmers president Will Foley.
"The drizzle, if anything, can almost be a nuisance to farmers as it can to cricketers [and their fans]," a jovial Foley said yesterday after 7.1mm of rain fell in Napier from about 10am to 1pm.
He had uncannily predicted that almost five hours before the second Chappell-Hadlee Trophy one-day match was scheduled to start at 2pm at McLean Park.
February is the province's hottest and driest month and the forecast is back to temperatures hovering around the 30C mark from today.
"It's nowhere near enough. We may get 5 to 10ml today," he said of the entire region.