POLL RESULTS: An ‘almost perfect’ summer continues
5/03/2016 3:25am
Coming out of one of the warmest months in New Zealand history, it’s no surprise that we had some polarising opinions on the summer so far.
With large high pressure systems sitting over the country for much of the final part of summer, farmers were as upset about the continuing dry as holidaymakers were happy.
In our latest poll, we wanted to know what New Zealanders thought of the summer season overall – and it seems that the overall take has been positive – with a combined 58% of voters saying it was either ‘perfect’ or ‘almost perfect’.
18% said it was either ‘not the best’ or ‘truly awful’ – maybe an indication of our farming readership.
All major forecasters agree on one thing – summer may be officially over, but this summer-y weather isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
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Andrew on 5/03/2016 11:42pm
What could be better, 2 weeks of fine, then 100mm in 3 days, then 2 weeks of fine. February as perfect. Holiday makers happy, farmers happy (or as happy as you’re likely to see them).
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Guest on 5/03/2016 9:41am
it makes me laugh one hot week and we want the rain and then complain it rains too much. Ask the Aussies about drought!
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GP on 5/03/2016 5:55am
Whilst it has been hot, I reckon a very average summer.
Rain was OK for the garden but that is about it.
Too many easterlies – no good if you are holidaying on the east coast!
So much for El Nino.
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GP on 5/03/2016 5:55am
Whilst it has been hot, I reckon a very average summer.
Rain was OK for the garden but that is about it.
Too many easterlies – no good if you are holidaying on the east coast!
So much for El Nino.
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RW on 5/03/2016 4:16am
Better than average locally, but not statistically outstanding. The early report of Nelson’s warmest summer was incorrect – it was the 2nd warmest from the Airport records, which date to 1943. This takes no account however of the older Nelson records, which would show that the summer of 1934-35 was significantly warmer than the other two (1998 and 2016).
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