This week has seen a number of torrential downpours and thunderstorms around the North Island – reversing a big and early dry pattern that had started to form. But don’t have false hope – the next couple of weeks look very dry for some regions as high pressure systems sweep in over New Zealand and for the first time in a while we have a large high moving in south of the country.
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