Read NIWA's annual climate summaries, going back to the year 2000. Each summary contains information on a single year's overall climate conditions, sunshine, temperature, soil moisture, and temperature.
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Annual Climate Summary 2018
2018: New Zealand’s equal-2nd warmest year on record -
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Annual Climate Summary 2014
Near normal rainfall and near average temperatures for most of the country. -
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Annual Climate Summary 2011
The year 2011 will be remembered as one of extremes. -
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2009
New Zealand’s climate for 2009 was characterised by frequent see-saws in temperature. -
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2007
Much drier than average in many places, but disastrous floods in Northland. Drought, destructive tornadoes, windstorms, variable temperatures. -
2006
Severe winter snowstorms; floods, wind storms, destructive tornadoes; variable temperatures, yet sunny overall. -
2005
Much warmer, with more anticyclones and less wind than normal; very low rainfall in the South Island; catastrophic floods and extremely high rainfall in Bay of Plenty; destructive tornadoes; an unseasonable late snowstorm. -
2004
Very stormy at times; devastating floods and extremely high rainfall in several North Island regions; high winds and late winter blizzards; very wet in some areas and cool. -
2003
Many extreme events; record low rainfall and cool in parts of Otago; wet in Coromandel; record sunshine in the South Island and in the lower North Island. -
2002
Numerous extreme events and El Niño returns; low rainfall in Bay of Plenty; Marlborough and Nelson cool inland; mild in Waikato and the northern South Island; average or above average sunshine. -
2001
Extremely low annual rainfall in the eastern South Island and parts of the lower North Island, despite wet end-of-year conditions; severe summer–autumn drought, mid-winter freeze; many other extreme events. -
2000
A sunny and slightly warmer than normal year; very wet in Canterbury and Otago; more anticyclones but many extreme events.