SUN LESS INTENSE
Effect Of Dust In Stratosphere
(N.Z. Press Association) NELSON, August 15.
Many farmers have reported to the weather office that the sun seems less intense this. year. One reason could be the effect of a layer of dust in the stratosphere from the volcanic eruption of Mount Agung in Bali, Indonesia, last March, according to Mr J. W. Hutchings, a senior research officer for the Meteorological Service in Wellington.
Mr Hutchings said records from solar radiation recorders in New Zealand at Invercargill, Harewood, Wellington and Auckland, and also at Nandi in Fiji, showed a decrease of up to 5 per cent, on a comparative period last year.
The dust could also be the reason for reports from Nelson photographers that they are having to use more exposure than they did at the same stage of previous years. Mr Hutchings said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30211, 16 August 1963, Page 16
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