WEATHER IN FEBRUARY
Conditions Cool And Wet The average tengMMtute last month was the lowest recorded in Febtaaiy te at least four years and rainfoll was the highest registered for the month in the acme period, says a meteorolcgieal report from Unooln College. During the week beginning on February 11, two and a quarter inches of rain foil The total for the month was 2.92 in competed with 112 in in 1961 and IfiOin in 1900. The rain relieved a food shortage, reviving lucerne and pasture which had been affected fay drought, said the report. The mean temperature for the month was 00J deg. and the mean maximum was 69.3 deg, compared with 72.3 in February last year. Sunshine hours were also the lowest for some years—--1819 hours; about 40 leas than in 1961.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29766, 8 March 1962, Page 9
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