Summer one of the wettest and greyest on record - Niwa Herald online
5 Mar, 2012 02:17 AM Quick Read
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Save Share this article Copy Link Email Facebook Twitter/X LinkedIn Reddit Out for a walk during heavy rain along Tamaki Drive in Auckland this summer. Photo / Jason Dorday
Record-breaking rainfall and all-time low sunshine hours made last summer one of the wettest and greyest in New Zealand history, new data shows.
Figures released by Niwa this afternoon show much of the North Island received record amounts of cloud from December till March.
It was the cloudiest summer ever
for main centres Auckland, Tauranga, Hamilton and Wellington, the data shows.
Auckland's 479 sunshine hours were just 75 per cent of normal.
Rainfall was also high in much of the North Island and upper South Island, with many areas recording triple normal summer levels.