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    NIWA's Hotspot Watch 12 December 2014

    Hotspot
    12 December 2014
    Weekly update to help media assess likelihood of extremely dry weather preceding a drought. Regions experiencing severely to extremely drier than normal soils conditions are deemed “hotspots”.

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    NIWA's Hotspot Watch 5 December 2014

    Hotspot
    05 December 2014
    Weekly update to help media assess likelihood of extremely dry weather preceding a drought. Regions experiencing severely to extremely drier than normal soils conditions are deemed “hotspots”.

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    NIWA's Hotspot Watch 28 November 2014

    Hotspot
    28 November 2014
    Weekly update to help media assess likelihood of extremely dry weather preceding a drought.