Dryness spreads into the North Island if high pressure dominates
High pressure later in summer could carry dryness from traditional areas into Waikato, Auckland and Northland.
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Dryness spreads into the North Island later this summer if high pressure dominates.
Blue Skies Weather meteorologist Tony Trewinnard says Waikato may yet veer towards extreme dryness.
“Drought and dryness accumulates gradually over time. It doesn’t hit all of a sudden,” he says.
Parts of Canterbury sit at about 10% soil moisture, drought level, and the Bridge Pa sensor in Hawke’s Bay is below wilting point.
Tony says the dry and warm signal arrives in the second half of summer and autumn.
Sea temperatures are two to three degrees warmer than normal for the time of year.
“If you’ve got soil moisture probes monitor your soil moisture.”
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