Last year was New Zealand's 10th warmest year on record, a drop from 2023, which was the second warmest year on record.
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research's (NIWA) annual climate summary revealed eight months of 2024 recorded above-average temperatures.
NIWA Principal Scientist Chris Brandolino said temperatures in March and May were the only two months that recorded below-average temperatures.
Auckland saw only 82 per cent of its normal rainfall in 2024, compared to its wettest year on record in 2023, Brandolino said.
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NIWA has been unveiling its 2024 weather summary. The announcement is being livestreamed at the top of this page from about 10.30 am on Wednesday.
With fire bans and pouring rain, the weather this summer has been varied, to say the least.
The past few weeks have left New Zealanders wondering where the summer has gone.
MetService meteorologist Mathapelo Makabulane said the culprit is a "large low-pressure".
"That's shifted to the east of us, and then a high-pressure system to the west," she told Morning Report.
"Those coming together to feed cold air from the south of us, and that's what we've been feeling over the last few weeks."
But she expected temperatures to return to normal after this week.
2 comments
Hmmm
Posted on 09-01-2025 15:05 | By Let's get real
Tell those people in the U.S.A. and the UK, who are dealing with freezing temperatures and snow, that the climate is changing and they'll probably agree with you now.
But is planting trees instead of growing livestock for food in NZ going to change anything..? It's a natural phenomena. Even this article supports that fact.
We're believing what we're being told by the zealots and single interest groups, about our impact on the environment. But it's a nonsense to believe that NZ must change to save the planet.
The climate is changing, but there's absolutely nothing that New Zealanders can do about it other than continuing to supply the rest of the world with top quality, grass-fed food and living our best lives.
Yes.......
Posted on 09-01-2025 20:33 | By groutby
.......I totally agree with Let's get real on this issue, I am a climate change skeptic but have every reason to believe we should do what we can practically to address the perceived reason for climate 'change'....but to demolish the economy of any country is insane, with a hope that the 'tweeks' we are able to address satisfy those of the climate change radicals AND allow a country to grow and function but in a positive way for the planet. If we are to put pressure on anyone it should not be ourselves, but the high emitters...we know who they are. We seem to be weak and ineffective at this, I think the Trump administration will shake things up a bit.....
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