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Weather in Taupō for the penultimate week of March and the first month of autumn can only be described with one word: Wet.
It was a week in which the long dry spell of summer was well and truly broken and where the rainfall exceeded one-and-a-half times the average for the month.
The 24-hour fall of 69.5mm on March 23 was close to but did not set a record fall for 24 hours for any March month. That happened twice in March 2011 when a 24-hour fall of 72mm was recorded on March 5 that year and 73mm fell on March 26.
The last-mentioned figure is the record fall for 24 hours in any March month for Taupō.