Weather Eye with John Maunder

Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites during the last 100 years, including at the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990.

The graph shows details of the average daily maximum temperatures, called simply ‘afternoon', for Tauranga for June from 1913-2015.

The long-term average afternoon temperature in June for Tauranga is 14.7 degrees Celsius.

The cool' June months were in 1972 with 13.0 degrees Celsius, 1936 with 13.2 degrees Celsius, and 1933 with 13.3 degrees Celsius.

The ‘warm' June months include last year , 2014 with 16.9 degrees Celsius, and 1916 and 2011, both with 16.6 degrees Celsius.

June last year had an average afternoon temperature of 16.9 degrees Celsius was the warmest June on record since observations were first made in 1913.

This compares with an average afternoon temperature in June this year of 15.4 degrees Celsius.

The graph of the average afternoon temperatures for June shows generally ‘normal' variations from June to June during the last 100 years.

But many of the last 15 June months since 1996 have been a little ‘warmer' than other June months since 1913.

From 1913 to 2015, there have been 14 June months with an average afternoon temperature of 15.6 degrees Celsius or more, and 12 June months with an average afternoon temperature of less than 13.9 degrees Celsius.

The ninth ‘warmest' June months on record, in chronological order, are: 1916, 1971, 1981, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2011 and 2014.

By contrast, the seventh ‘coolest' June months on record, in chronological order, are 1933, 1936, 1941, 1944,1969, 1972 and 1976.

The average afternoon temperature in June during the period 1914-1962 was 14.7 degrees Celsius compared with 14.8 degrees Celsius from 1963 to 2011.

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