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Hawke's Bay Trends
Hawke's Bay Trends
January 2016
We seem
to have an El Niño with an identity crisis. It lives up to
its name for a time and then it suddenly adopts a warm,
drenching, vaguely La Niña persona. But in this case, the
wetter than usual January was courtesy of a couple of
ex-tropical cyclones that toddled our way and the chance of
that happening doesn’t evaporate in El Niño conditions.
That tropical air made things hot and sticky and gave us one and a half times the usual January rainfall to balance out the half measures we had in December.
Our soil moisture levels in many places soared upward in response, while both river flows and groundwater levels are still middling around normal or a shade below.
If you packed away your sunglasses at the end of your hols, you might want to fish them out.
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