HEAVY DOWNPOUR

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 14, 29 October 1935, Page 4

HEAVY DOWNPOUR

71 POINTS OF RAIN OVERNIGHT.

FALL GENERAL IN THE COUNTY

The weather held good for the Labour Day holiday until late yesterday night, when bright sunshine gave place to dull conditions and a cold wind. Light rain commenced about 7 p.m., and a heavy downpour was fairly general throughout the County during the night. The rain fell in showers, and many of them early this morning were particularly heavy. The soaking the ground has now received will proye of very great benefit provided a little warm, dry weather is experienced to enable the crops to make use of the moisture that has fallen.

Seventy-one points were registered in Ashburton for the 24 hours ended at 9 o’clock this morning. This makes 2.14 inches since Sunday week. For the month the total has now reached 2.36 inches, while the fall in October, 1934, was 2.14 inches. The reading at Colonel J. Findlay’s farm at Eiffelton was 77 points for the 24 hours ended at 9.30 o’clock this morning. This makes a. total of two inches for the present month in this district.

The fall at Tinwald, as registered by the gauge at Mr W. S. Strange’s “Riverside” property, was 80 points. At iPendarves, Mr A. P. Bruce measured 74 points for the 24 hours. Conditions to-day were showery, with a fresh south-easterly wind. The rain showed signs of lifting this afternoon. The barometer has taken another sudden drop, reading 29.24 inches at 9 a.m., compared with 29.53 inches yesterday morning. Maximum _jind minimum temperatures yesterday and last night were 63.9 degrees and 46.5 degrees.

TO-DAY'S FORECAST. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Government Meteorologist, at noon to-day, issued the following statement regarding the weather: — General inference: A depression which moved rapidly on to the Dominion yesterday has intensified considerably since last- night. This morning low centres were located respectively east of Kaikoura and off the West Coast of the South Island. The forecast for the east coast of the South Island from Blenheim to Oamara is as follows:

Moderate but increasing southerly winds. Weather dull, misty and cold. Further rainl with some heavy falls. Seas rough.