Photo: RNZ / Liz Garton
Unusually dry conditions forming hotspots are affecting eastern areas of both the North and South Islands following a period of hot, dry winds.
Earth Sciences New Zealand has identified the hotspots - areas where soils are severely drier than normal - in lower coastal Wairarapa, coastal Hawke's Bay, North Otago, South Canterbury and North Canterbury.
The hotspots in both North Otago and South Canterbury have grown over
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