Rainfall totals across New Zealand this month have varied as wildly as 483 per cent of normal in Central Otago, and zero per cent in the lower North Island. Photo / Michael CraigJanuary may go down as one of the weirdest months on the weather books, with a feast-or-famine rainfall picture that's left the south saturated - and the far north again in severe drought. Rainfall totals across New Zealand this month have varied as wildly as 483 per cent of normal, in Central Otago, to zero per cent in the lower North Island. From 0% to 483% of normal 😳Check out how variable rainfall totals have been across New Zealand during January. The NZ Drought Index shows meteorological drought and severe meteorological drought located in parts of the Far North, with dry to extremely dry soils elsewhere in the upper North Island.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 24, 2021 01:30 UTC