AUGUST WEATHER
METEOROLOGIST'S REPORT
August was a month of cool, unsettled weather with frequent rain, reports the Dominion Meteorologist.' Young stock suffered from wet conditions and the lack of sunshine, losses of ewes and lambs occurring in Wellington and Canterbury where the rainfall was heaviest, and in parts of South Canterbury stock was snowbound for some days. Poor weather and sodden ground caused a general delay in planting and sowing, but crops already in are mailing some progress. Pastures made little growth except in the northern portion of the North Island, where temperatures were milder and the rainfall more moderate.
« Rainfall totals were mainly in excess. For Wellington and Christchurch cities it was the wettest \ugust for which records are available and the same is true of many stations in the south Wellington and Canterbury Provinces.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 212, 8 September 1941, Page 8
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