A cold and frosty June will turn into a wet start to July. Photo / File
A cold and frosty June will turn into a wet start to July. Photo / File
It was a cold and frosty June for Rotorua with a frost of -8C recorded one day in the city.
For almost half of the month, many people would have woken to a blanket of frost on their front lawn, however, the weather gods were kind enough to give highsof 16C throughout the month.
Brian Holden, from Springfield Weather Observations, recorded a mean temperature of 7.9C for Rotorua and 85.9mm of rain across the month.
He said it was normal to experience 154mm of rain through the month of June.
On June 20, the Rotorua Daily Post reported the temperature of -2.6C was the coldest morning of the year so far.
