WELLINGTON LUCKY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 11

WELLINGTON LUCKY

[WEATHER IN JUNE

FIRST MONTH OF WINTER

Although June as a whole was aj rather cold and cloudy month in Wellington, the city was lucky in escaping the severe conditions which characterised the month's weather in other parts of the Dominion. The approximate mean temperature for the month was 47.8 degrees, or 0.5 of a degree below the average. The mean maximum temperature was 53.0 , degrees, and the mean minimum 42.7 degrees, compared with previous ] averages of 53.9 and 43.3 degrees respectively. The highest maximum tern- y perature, one of Cl.O degrees, was recorded on the Ist, and the lowest minimum, 31.8 degrees on the 13th.. There . were four frosts during the month, the ' hardest being on the morning of the 13th when the grass minimum temperature fell as low as 22.5 degrees. ' The rainfall at Kelburn was 54 percent, below June's average. Only 2.80 ( inches were recorded; the average fall in June being 4.31 inches. Rain fell , on 16 days (the average number of \ days with rain in June being 17), so ] the rain was well distributed through , the month. There were no particularly ' heavy falls, 60 points being the greatest fall in one day. The rainfall at the Karori Reservoir totalled 3.34 inches, ( falling on 17 days. i The hours of bright sunshine fell a , little short of normal, the total being ( 96.2 hours as against a. June average ( of 106.6. There were seven days upon - which the sun did not shine at all. ( There was also less wind than usual. , The mean daily run averaged 177 : miles, the normal figure for June being j 208 miles. The 24 hours ended at:, 9 a.m. on the 9th provided the windiest period of the month, a total of 428 - I miles then being registered. There • J were no gales, however, during the i month. ' ' ; Barometric pressure averaged 26.690 ; inches, which is 0.263 of an inch below the normal. The highest reading was i 30.333 inches on the. 22nd, and the j lowest 29.041 inches on the 25th. i On the morning of the 12th there ; was a heavy hailstorm in the city, ; stones measuring three-eighths of an inch falling at Kelburn. Light hail ' fell on the 27th also. There was snow ■ on the Orongorongos on the 10th, 27, : and 28th, and a particularly heavy fall i was in evidence on the morning of the • 29th. On the evening of the 28th there : was a light fall of snow at Kelburn. : On the 3rd a fog persisted until noon, : and on the 17th another thick fog enveloped the city and harbour. Fogs of lesser density occurred on the 15th and 24th.

Lightning was seen on the nights of the 9th and 11th.