WARM DAY

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31614, 27 February 1968, Page 1

WARM DAY

Some 90 Readings

Cheviot, Waiau, Culverden, Ashburton, Fairlie, Tekapo and Geraldine all had temperatures of 90 degrees or more yesterday.

Ashburton had its third hottest day for the summer with a maximum temperature of 91.2 degrees in the early afternoon. It climbed from just below 80 degrees at 9 a.m. to 88 degrees at 1 p.m. Continuing hot, dry conditions in the Grey county resulted in scrub fires and empty water tanks in some rural areas. A temperature of 78 degrees was recorded in a Greymouth shop in the early afternoon.

North Canterbury.—Temperatures included Kaikoura, 73.3 degrees at 2 p.m.; Cheviot, 90 degrees at noon; Hantner Springs, 85 degrees at 2.30 p.m., with a humidity of 18 per cent; Waiau, 91 degrees at noon; Culverden, 91 degrees at noon; Rangiora, 83 degrees at 1 p.m. Christchurch.—The temperature climbed steadily from 56 degrees at 6 a.m. to a maximum for the day of 82.6 degrees at 1.30 p.m., accord--ing to the readings at the meteorological office at Hare wood. It then fell slowly to 71 degrees at 7 p.m. The temperature in the Botanic Gardens was 77 degrees at 3 p.m.

South Canterbury. The temperature at Fairlie was 92 degrees, and at Tekapo and Geraldine 90 degrees at 3 p.m. The maximum temperature in Timaru was 75 degrees at 3 p.m. In Otago, Roxburgh registered 95 degrees at 4 p.m., and Millers Flat had the same temperature an houri later.