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THe NIWA-listed site for Hastings only gives 24.5C for the average max (1971-2000) in January (highest monthly value for it). There's a value of 25.5C for Te Aroha in February, the highest number I've seen.
Te Teko averages 25.9 C in January. I'm pretty sure it has the highest mean summer max temps.
Is there anything like this available for New Zealand?
If there is then it should put this debate to rest. This, and the other maps at Met Office: UK mapped climate averages show just how bad the Scottish climate in particular really is.
All I have to do to get a climate that is warmer than Invercargill (with warmer summers) is move down 1,000ft, I can just relocate to Manchester just 25 miles away, which I'm doing this year. I'm leaving Buxton in less than 6 months! Yay. It's only because it's 1,100ft up that's is as cold and wet as it is. Funnily enough Buxton's July and August are warmer than Invercagills Jan & Feb actually.
There's areas on the south coast of England I could relocate to easily and get warmer summers than 80% of NZ and 1,950 annual sunshine hours. You'd have to move country to get an appreciably better climate than what you're currently in.
I was in Manchester a few years back. It was mid May and the temps were all mid 70's with clear blue skies for an entire week. I mean a big high sat right over England and not one cloud in the sky day after day. Beautiful! If it can reach that in May am sure they can have decent heat waves in summer.
Is there anything like this available for New Zealand?
If there is then it should put this debate to rest. This, and the other maps at Met Office: UK mapped climate averages show just how bad the Scottish climate in particular really is.
I haven't seen graphs, but Met Service have an article which is a good summary:
New Zealand Climate | metservice.com (http://www.metservice.com/learning/nz-climate - broken link)
The tab "climate summary" gives a rather simple table for a few locations. Note however that some of the numbers are a little out of date (e.g., sunshine 30-year means are significantly higher for several locations than shown there).
I don't think there is a "debate": merely a variety of preferences. Despite the Gulf Stream offset NZ is warmer than the UK in all seasons; it is sunnier (nationally averaged) by about 650 hours. It is also wetter, but the numbers of precip. days are lower. If you use England, rather than the UK, the sunshine difference reduces by about 120 hours.
Very happy with the cloudy weather today. Seems like we've had a lot of clear sunny days lately. Once in a while is okay, but the novelty wears off quickly.
I spose I should be happy that the work computer keyboard still works after I dropped my whole cup of water into it yesterday.
Be happy to confuse a keyboard with a surfboard!
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