Bad news, good graphic
From NIWA, soil moisture across the country (via @nzben on Twitter), compared to the same time last year and to the average for this date.
Update: If I had to be picky about something: that light blue colour. It doesn’t really fit in the sequence.
Update: Stuff also has a NIWA map, and theirs looks worse, but it’s based on rainfall over just the past three weeks (and, strangely, labelled “Drought levels over the past six days”)
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Maybe it means flooding. :->
… but looking at the scale, I think maybe it does, if you go over carrying capacity of the soil than it must be a flood.
12 years ago
Run-off, but not necessarily flood — depends how heavy the rain is.
12 years ago