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Published date26 January 2023
Publication titleBay of Plenty Times
Drought conditionsAreas of Otago and Southland could be in drought by summer’s end, as La Niña continues to bring its contrasting wet-and-dry flavours to the north and south. Niwa’s five-week forecast shows pockets of those already parched regions could soon meet the threshold for meteorological drought — or that caused by a severe deficit in normal rainfall. Widespread dryness observed across most of the South Island was also expected to expand to swathes of the west of the lower North Island by late February. “This dryness has been persistent across Southland, Stewart Island, inland Otago and the West Coast, where Greymouth just had its fourth-driest December, and is tracking toward its fourth-driest January,” Niwa meteorologist Ben Noll said. Niwa’s latest “Hotspot Watch” reported many parts of the upper, eastern and lower South Island received no rainfall over the past week. The ocean-driven climate system that’s influenced much of the southern dryness, La Niña, was predicted to fade over autumn

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