It's official - April was much warmer and much drier than normal.
More than three dozen places had near-record, or record, high maximum temperatures, mostly between 4 April and 6 April.
Specially impressive was a maximum temperature of 30.8 degrees Celsius in Timaru on 4 April - the country's fourth highest April temperature on record.
NIWA meteorologist Chris Brandolino spoke to Susie Ferguson.
