Cool weather in New Zealand

El-Nino in New Zealand

Seemorerocks

From having a record warm winter the part of New Zealand I live in has gone to a cool spring with lots of gales that have dried out the soil making it look like a drought. However, the weather is constantly overcast and cooler than usual.

While we would normally see hot drought conditions during an el-Nino everything now is an aberration

This report is from Pam Crisp:

"We’ve been looking forward to our traditional Christmas lamb. Alas, not this year. We received an email last week from Wai Ora Meats, a Manawatu-based family farm supplying the Wellington region, advising us that, due to the colder than normal temperatures, pasture growth had been too slow for the lambs to reach the weight needed to process them."

This is borne out by this report from Radio New Zealand “Country Life” which is about the only place in the NZ media you will find anything about weather conditions.

We can see why New Zealand might be cooler than other places on the globe if you look at these two charts.

While the Pacific, as a whole is on fire the ocean surrounding New Zealand is cooler than the average

BTW - Have a quick look at temperature aberrations in Bering Strait, between Alaska and Russia!

This map shows that land temperatures in New Zealand are below average

To those who belly-ache about the conditions I would caution to be careful what they wish for and be a bit more aware of what their cousins in Australia are facing and extreme weather everywhere around the globe.