2,212,584 TONS!

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 155, 4 July 1938, Page 10

2,212,584 TONS!

WEEK-END RAINFALL.

GREATER AUCKLAND'S SHARE. STATISTICS FOR 48 HOURS. Astounding _. . . but true. Anybody with a paseion for statistics can check up on the figures. The point is that from 0 o'clock on Saturday morning until f) o'clock this morning nearly two and a quarter million tons of water fell on the area covered by f J renter Auckland. To be more exact, the total amount was 2.212.0.54 tons. And even at that it wasn't what could be described as an abnormal!v wet week-end.

Meteorological statisticians—and they should know—say that an inch of rain is equal to about 102 tons of water on each acre. The area of Greater Auckland is 57.000 acres, and for the 48 hours ended at !> o'clock this morning; an officio 1 reading of I.ltiin of rain was recorded.

Once you know that, it is easy work. One inch of ruin over N7.001.1 acres comes to I.!Mi7.4imi tons. Add on .ltiin over the .-ame area, which means that you add on :!(i."i.lS4 tons, and the answer, for which tliere are no prizes, is 2.212..Y54 tons. _\o wonder overcoats and uiubrellas were in demand. Tliere nitty have been a few more thousands of tons, as a few of tlio Harbour Board reclamations are not included in the estimated area. Km no one would quibble about that. Low Barometer Reading.

An outstanding feature of the weekend was the low barometric pressure throughout the Dominion, ranging at 4 o'clock ye.-terday afternoon from 29.29' m at (ape Maria van D'cmen to 2S..s:Ji;i at Greyinmith. The figure* at the Chatham Islands were 2!).7tiin.

At an early hour yesterday a steadily falling Urometer in Auckland registered 29.10 in, the lowest reading previously recorded in the citv this year being 29.25 in on June 12."

Readings in other parts of Xew Zealand at 4 p.m. yesterday were:-—(lis-borne, 29.0.-, in; Xapier. *AMin; (ape hgmont. 29.0Ki„ Wnnganui. 28.97 in 28.S(iin ; Bluff. 29 08 in

1 hough the wind sometimes reached gale force in the city over the week-end no damage was reported. Particularly £ aV> ,' q '-', al, u fro,n thc west - occasional hail showers last night and early this morning, made conditions unpleasant At Manukau Heads yesterday and last evening the wind was blowing at gale force from the west and seaS on the Manukau bar were rough.