THE WEATHER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 68, 2 January 1936, Page 4

THE WEATHER.

DULL CONDITIONS YESTERDAY. After a warm day on New Year’s Eve, when the maxhnum shade temperature reached 76.6 degrees, a light shower of three points of rain fell early yesterday morning. The day continued to be dull, the maximum temperature reaching 62.3 degrees. The weather was brighter to-day, the sun shining from a slightly clouded sky. A south-easterly breec was blowing. The minimum temperature last night was 51.4 degrees, and on Tuesday night 50.4 degrees. The barometer pressure at 9 o’clock this morning was 30.07 inches, .compared with 30.19 inches yesterday morning. CONDITIONS IN DECEMBER. In strong contrast to the heavy rainfall experienced in November, only 1.46 inches of rain fell in December, which was one of the driest months last year. The heaviest single fall of rain was 79 points on December 29. Rain fell on only four days last month, compared with six in 1.934, when the heaviest fall was of 1.32 inches. There have been no frosts in December for the last three years. A reading of 29.56 inches on December 14 was the lowest barometric pressure during the month, the highest being 30.28 inches on December 2. Maximum shade temperatures varied from 89.1 degrees on December 25 to 57.7 degrees o'n December 29. A period of intense heat occurred from December 24 to 28. Extremes cf inside minimum readings were 62.2 degrees on December 25, and 40.9 degrees on December 29. The total sunshine recorded during the month was 238 hours 3 minutes, compared with 210 hours last year, and 157 hours 2 minutes in November. The sun did not break through the clouds at all on December 19, and shone for only two minutes on December 18.

TO-DAY’S FORECAST. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The forecast for the east coast of the South Island from Blenheim to Oamaru is as follows: — General inference : An intense anticyclone still covers the Tasman Sea and extends over the Dominion. A depression is moving on to the south-west Tasman. The Government Meteorologist, at noon to-day, issued the following statement regarding the weather: — Light to moderate and variable winds, with northerlies prevailing. Weather line and warm to hot. Seas rising north cf Cape Campbell, otherwise slight to moderate.