Just months after the Hawke's Bay landscape sat parched and dry, a series of substantial bouts of rain have left the region rejuvenated.
Metservice meteorologist Lisa Murray said with more than one week left in April the city of Napier had already doubled its average rainfall for the month.
Representing data collated from 1991 to 2003, Metservice's long-term mean rainfall for Napier in April suggests rainfall should measure 80.5mm. Yesterday the figure was 162mm.
In Central Hawke's Bay, Mount Vernon homestead owner Richard Harding said he had been monitoring the rainfall levels with the historic homestead's rain gauge.
Central Hawke's Bay had already received half of it's annual rainfall and this was due to weather patterns and the heavy downpours brought by cyclones, Mr Harding said.