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Niwa: Hotter, wetter, drier, frost-free climate
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By Craig Borley
Hot, dry Auckland summers, a wetter West Coast and plummeting frost-days await us if the latest climate change predictions come true.
The predictions were included in National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research's latest climate change report, released yesterday.
It uses new data and draws on far more climate models than the previous report in 2004. It bases the predictions on the mid-range of expected ongoing greenhouse gas emissions, and draws its predictions out to the end of this century.
It states an unusually warm year today could be classed as very cold by the end of the century.
The expected 2C rise across the country is likely to coincide with a predominantly westerly wind, bringing more rain to the west and leaving less for the east.
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