Over half the locations we follow around the region recorded less than 50mm which is more than half of the 100mm that would be expected for September. The culprit was a stubborn high pressure system that kept moisture from leaving the tropics towards the North Island. The start of October will continue in the same trend but a strong La Nina in the Pacific could change the weather pattern as we draw closer to summer. Here were your local rainfall totals from the driest to wettest.
22.8 Bayswater
24.8 Chatswood
25.9 Hauraki
25.9 Matarangi
29.7 Mangawhai
30.7 Waipu
31.2 Whangaparaoa
31.8 Bucklands beach
32.0 Devonport
32.5 Herne Bay
33.2 Rothesay Bay
33.8 Albany
34.2 Takapuna
34.5 Narrow Neck
34.5 Whangarei Heads
36.0 Waiheke Island
36.1 Castor Bay
36.1 Glenfield
36.1 Milford
36.6 Orewa
37.4 Whangarei
38.1 Whangamata
38.8 Northcote
39.1 Murrays Bay
40.2 Auckland city
40.6 Beachlands
41.1 Wellsford
41.7 Stanmore Bay
42.1 Marsden Cove
43.2 Hobsonville point
43.4 Stanley Point
44.5 Ellerslie
45.0 Beach Haven
46.0 Red Beach
46.0 Torbay
47.2 Dairy Flat
48.2 Leigh
49.5 Coromandel
50.0 Henderson
50.2 Grey Lynn
50.3 Birkenhead
51.1 Greenhithe
52.8 Pauanui
53.1 Riverhead
53.9 Warkworth
54.1 Helensville
54.5 Mission Bay
54.8 Clevedon
54.8 Howick
57.4 Thames
57.9 Browns Bay
58.2 Onehunga
59.0 Castle Rock
61.7 Long Bay
65.0 Omaha
67.8 Campbells bay
67.8 Muriwai
68.8 Pukekohe
68.8 St Heliers
71.0 Redvale
71.1 Paremoremo
71.3 Great Barrier Island
71.6 Wharekawa
72.4 Hunua
73.5 Matakana
74.2 Kawau Island
82.6 Whitianga
84.1 Kaukapakapa
92.9 Waimauku
125.0 Pinnacles (Coromandel Ranges)
(Private online and MetService weather stations measured in millimetres)
