Current climate: June 2017
Overall, mean sea level air pressures were higher than normal over and to the east, west, and south New Zealand during June.
New Zealand Climate Update 217 - July 2017
7 July 2017
What happened in June, how our climate outlook for the previous three months turned out, global and local sea temperatures, and our outlook for July to September.
Download the NZ Climate Update 217 July 2017 [PDF 640KB]
Global setting: June 2017
The tropical Pacific remained in an ENSO (El Niño – Southern Oscillation) neutral state (neither El Niño nor La Niña) during June 2017, but oceanic and atmospheric anomalies were mixed, with some indicators leaning towards El Niño and others towards La Niña.
Outlook: July – September 2017
July – September 2017 temperatures are about equally likely to be above average (45% chance) or near average (40% chance) for the west and east of the North Island.
Retrospective: April-June 2017 Outlook
During April-June, the atmospheric circulation around New Zealand was expected to favour higher pressure than normal to the west of the country, with more anticyclonic south-westerly wind flows than normal, a pattern suggestive of El Niño.