Rainfalls for the month of September have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898, except for 1904, 1907, 1908, and 1909.

The graph below shows the range of rainfalls from an extreme high of 274 mm in 1973 to a low of only 16 mm in 1965.

The second wettest September was in 1900, when 256 mm was recorded, and the second driest September was in 1944, when........

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