If you threw the duvet off the bed last month and felt like spring was coming early you were responding to New Zealand's second warmest July on record.
You might have noticed Whanganui having some of the top temperatures on the TV weather - because Whanganui was one of the warmer places in the country.
New Zealand temperatures were an average of 0.5C and 1.2C above average, and Manawatū-Whanganui and the inland South Island were the most unusually warm places, Niwa said.
In Whanganui the temperature was 2.4C higher than average across July. In Ohakune it was 1.7C higher, and Waiouru was 1.8C higher than average.
On July 3 Whanganui recorded a top temperature of 19.9C, while Ohakune had 16.8C.