For the second year in a row, Wanganui has experienced an unusually dry July.
Figures released this week by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) show that Wanganui had 47mm of rain, or 56 per cent of its normal rainfall for July.
July 2013 was also dry. Wanganui had 30mm, or 35 per cent of the July average of 85mm.
However, Wanganui's dry month paled into comparison beside neighbour Palmerston North, which at 15mm of rain, had just 17 per cent of its July average.
By contrast, Northland had a sodden July. Kaikohe had 586mm of rain, more than three times its July average.