25 July 2016
A number of temperature records toppled across New Zealand over the weekend as tropical winds from New Caledonia and Vanuatu streamed over the country.
New daily temperature records were set on Saturday, Saturday night, and Sunday with some places as warm or warmer during the night than November:
South Island record temperatures Saturday:
- Christchurch 22.3°C topped 18.8°C from 2005 (3rd warmest July temperature on record; warmer than the typical maximum during January)
- Rangiora 21.1°C topped 17.8°C from 2005 (5th warmest July temperature on record)
- Waipara 20.3°C topped 17.6°C from 1973 (7th warmest July temperature on record)
- Cheviot 21.7°C topped 16.1°C from 1983 (2nd warmest July temperature on record)
- Waiau 21.7°C topped 16.1°C from 2013 (warmest July temperature on record)
- Glenveigh-Kaikoura 22.5°C topped 19.7°C from 1998.
North Island Record Temperatures Saturday:
- Dannevirke 19.8°C topped 18.3°C from 1988 (3rd warmest July temperature on record)
- Whanganui 19.8°C topped 17.7°C from 1971 (3rd warmest July temperature on record)
- Napier 21.8°C topped 20.3°C from 1942
- Wairoa 21.4°C topped 19.5°C from 1973 (3rd warmest July temperature on record)
- Gisborne 20.4°C topped 19.5°C from 1973
- Taupo 16.9°C topped 16.0°C from 1973
- Auckland 18.8°C topped 18.3°C from 2011 (max occurred at 3am Saturday night; thus, Auckland had a 3am temperature in mid-winter that is an average max in November)
- North Island Record Temperatures Saturday night:
- Dargaville 14.3°C topped 13.5°C from 1998 (7th warmest July minimum temperature on record)
- Auckland 14.7°C topped 14.2°C from 1988 (5th warmest July minimum temperature on record)
- Hamilton 13.8°C topped 11.3°C from 2012 (2nd warmest July minimum temperature on record)
- Tauranga 14.3°C topped 12.4°C from 2012
- Taupo 11.4°C topped 9.4°C from 1988
- Wairoa 15.8°C topped 12.4°C from 2002 (warmest July minimum temperature on record)
- Napier 14.4°C topped 13.6°C from 1988.
North Island record temperatures Sunday:
- Gisborne 19.6°C topped 19.3°C from 1949.
A pair of all-time monthly temperature records were also broken with the warmest July maximum (21.7°C) recorded at Waiau in the north of Canterbury and warmest July minimum (15.8°C) at Wairoa in the north of Hawke’s Bay.