Rain has been a four-letter word for the region this year and as you might suspect it has been a record year for the wet stuff . . . just over 2100 millimetres with three weeks of the year to go, according to measurements at the harbour where records started being taken 146 years ago. It is double the annual average, thanks to weather “events” such as cyclones Hale and Gabrielle, and this late February rain which flooded a section of Gladstone Road while the city was in a “water crisis” due to damage done to the main water supply pipe during Cyclone Gabrielle earlier in the month. Former Gisborne Herald journalist Roger Handford has had a look back at the unprecedented year of weather. Picture by Paul Rickard
Weather is the year’s dirty word in Tairāwhiti — a year which has set a new standard for the word “wet”.
As Christmas draws near, residents from East Cape to Wairoa and Napier will be hoping for a dry and sunny spell for the festive season after 2023’s endless rain “events”.
The year has broken weather records with an almost malevolent relentlessness.
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Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne weather: How a Tongan volcanic eruption almost guarantees a ‘flooded summer’ for Australia’s east coast
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/how-a-tongan-volcanic-eruption-almost-guarantees-a-flooded-summer-for-australias-east-coast/news-story/3b1be3a36b5681ce70d7327392ed0129
If that is the case, I wonder how long this weather pattern can continue? Years perhaps to get rid of the excess water in our atmosphere?
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