As the rain starts to move south over the top of the North Island, these are the rainfall totals for February to date, for the main centres up until 9 o’clock this morning.

Rainfall totals in mm

Auckland 90 

Hamilton 93 

Tauranga 28 

Wellington 141 

Christchurch 52 

Dunedin Airport 70 

Top temperatures for the month officially

Auckland Airport 28.4

Whenuapai 32.4

Hamilton 30

Tauranga 30

Wellington 26

Christchurch 34

Dunedin Airport 33 

The rainfall totals should increase for most of the main centres by tomorrow night which signals the end of the month and the summer season officially.