Record-breaking Kiwi summer heatwave turns Auckland tropical for a weekDAVID WHITE/STUFF There's still five days left in our Kiwi summer for this year's record-breaking average to push higher. Not only was the 2017/2018 summer New Zealand's hottest on record, a meteorologist says a particularly tropical week in Auckland was comparable to living in Fiji. OUR HOTTEST SUMMER* 108 places across New Zealand recorded their hottest summer on record, 21 their 2nd hottest and 8 their 3rd hottest. On the same day Clyde got to 37.6, Middlemarch 37.4 and Cheviot 37.3 – together these comprise the hottest temperatures of summer. * Auckland usually has 29 summer days above 25 degrees, this year there have been 47 – the highest since records began at Auckland Airport in 1966.

Source: Stuff February 22, 2018 20:14 UTC