THE WEATHER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 303, 4 October 1938, Page 4

THE WEATHER.

MILD CONDITIONS CONTINUE. Although the sky was overcast for the greater part of to-day, a warm wind from the north-west kept the temperature well up. The weather was ideal yesterday when the reading of tine thermometer rose as high as 71.1? degrees. The lowest inside temperature last night was 44.6 degrees. The barometer stood at 29.64 inches this morning. THE MONTH AT METHVEN. The following are the observations recorded by Mr J. Carr, “ltudstone,” Methven in September:— Rain fell on eight days. The heaviest fall for any. one day was 1.50 inches on the Ist, and the total for the month was 5.64 inches. The total for the year to date is 41.29 inches, as against 30.04 for a corresponding period in 1937. The average for September during the last 30 years is 3.19 inches. The wettest month in this period was in 1929, when 7.70 inches.were recorded and the driest was in 1915 with 84 points. The highest value of the barometer last month was 30.32 inches on the 9th and the lowest 29.50 on the 17th. The highest reading of the maximum thermometer was 67 degrees on the 30th and the lowest minimum 31 degrees on the 4th and 6th," The . lowest reading on the grass was 19 on the 27th inst. The range of temperatures for the month was 15.5. The mean temperature was 46.7. Frosts were recorded on 20 occasions.

Hours of bright sunshine recorded were 174.7, miles of wind 3,816, and the evaporation 3.405 inches. MONTH’S RECORDS AT RAKAIA. Rain fell in Rakaia on five days during September, making a total of' 3.38 inches, compared with 1.81 inches for the corresponding month last year, and .88 inches for August this year. The heaviest fall for one day was on September 2, when 179 points were recorded. The total to date this year is 30.72 inches, compared with 20.09 inches over the same period last year. TO-DAY’S FORECAST. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Government Meteorologist, at noon to-day, issued the following statement regarding the weather:— i General situation: An anticyclone is passing to the north, but a deep depression covers south-eastern Australia and is advancing across the south Tasman Sea. The forecast for the east coast of the South Island from Blenheim to Oamaru is as follows: Light to moderate north-easterly winds in coastal areas and northwesterly inland, northwestorlies gradually becoming more general and freshening. Weather fair, warm and hazy. Sea becoming rough north of Kaikoura, elsewhere slight to moderate.