Monthly rainfall

Wed 11 Apr 2018

March was another wet month in Taranaki, with all but one of our monitored sites well above their normal rainfall totals.

Mon 05 Mar 2018

Visitors from the tropics were in the news in February and among other impacts, they made their presence felt in Taranaki's rain gauges.

Thu 08 Feb 2018

Rainfall for January was above normal by between 109% and 292% for all sites except Kapoaiaia (88%) and Taungatara (89%).

Fri 12 Jan 2018

Most of our monitored sites got less than half of their usual December rainfall and a few of them were as low as 13% to 15%. This dry end to the year, however, balanced earlier wet periods, and total 2017 rainfall at most places was not far above normal.

Tue 05 Dec 2017

The scale of the current dry spell is sharply apparent in Taranaki's rain stats for November, with record low rainfall at a number of our monitored sites.

Thu 02 Nov 2017

October was very dry, with only 28% to 85% of normal rainfall recorded at our monitored sites.

Thu 05 Oct 2017

September was wet - on average, our monitored sites across the region got 153% of their normal monthly total, with a couple of places above 200%.

Tue 05 Sep 2017

Another wet month - August rainfall ranged from 102% to 217% of normal at the sites we monitor, with the average being 167%.