Hey Bill, it’s a yes and a no when it comes to relief. The ‘no’ comes from the fact we said back in August that the wilder than usual storms over the Southern Ocean this year would highly likely extend the south-west flow over NZ into December (keeping spring weather going until the start of January). That means Southland, Fiordland and Westland are shouldering it for much of the country. The ‘yes’ comes from the fact despite the regular cold fronts you’re still getting, there are more dry and mild days increasingly coming into the mix. As the days get longer and longer hopefully we’ll see more calming of our weather going into summer… or at least tilting your winds more westerly to keep them milder and drier.
Cheers
Phil D

Hi Darian, thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately neither NIWA or MetService will openly & freely share historical data as they have commercialised it.

NZ is the only modern country to block open and free access of tax funded/publicly owned weather data. To keep our own data set would be too expensive and is why the Government funds NIWA and MetService to do it. So for now, we can’t do what you suggest sadly.

Kind regards,
WW

Hey Jet, Wellington doesn’t get sou-westers due to the layout of the Southern Alps/Cook Strait/lower North Island. Usually sou-westers turn into Southerlies and westerlies turn into Nor-Westers.

– WW