WEATHER
Sir,—lt is interesting to note that although this has been such a very unsettled summer and so hard on growers of the various local products, tomatoes being an almost total failure, this month’s sunshine has been so much greater than usual. Your table this morning shows a total of 267 hours 40 minutes. I am at the moment more than 50 miles from Christchurch and have had no sunshine to-day. Even if there was a blank in the city too, I am under the impression that so great a total as this has never before been recorded in a single month. Can you inform me if this is so?— Yours, etc., PISCATOR. Akaroa, March 31,1945. # [The Director of Meteorological Services says: ‘‘The March sunshine total as recorded at Wigram aerodrome,was 270.2 hours, which is the highest total recorded for any month for the district since records commenced in 1928. The March average is 167.7 hours. Sunshine was much below normal in the earlier months of the present year.”]
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24536, 9 April 1945, Page 6
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