Weather Eye with John Maunder

Rainfalls for the month of March have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898 – except for 1904, 1908 and 1909.

This graph below shows the range of rainfalls from a high of 504mm in 1979, to a low of five mm in 1943.

The second wettest March was in 1972, when 318mm was recorded, and two March months – 1921 and 2010 – recorded 14mm.

The long-term average rainfall for Tauranga for March is 109mm. The rainfall for March 2014 was 43mm.

The graph shows no significant overall trend in rainfalls in March during the last 110 years, apart from a small increase in the average rainfall for the 50 years ending in 1960 of 103mm, to 117mm in the 50 years to 2010.

Since 1898, there have been eleven March months with a rainfall of 200mm or more, and eleven March months with a rainfall of 30mm or less.

For further information on the rainfall of Tauranga during the last 100 years, see https://sites.google.com/site/theweatherclimateeye/