Weather sets records

Press, 10 February 1983, Page 13

Weather sets records

Several weather records were noted at Lincoln College in 1982. Only 310 mm of rain fell between November, 1981, and September, 1982, the lowest rainfall <• recorded for an equivalent period since 1896-97, - The total, for the year was boosted to 495.5 mm by the rainfall for the rest of the year. The total was still 25 per cent below average. . A.;record for evaporation . was set last February when the rate of land evaporation was pleasured at 256,9 mm..— .This was the highest record-., ling made since weather ob-.‘ servations began at the college in 1945. The monthly mean maiti-

mum temperature was the highest measured since 1893. August ■* was a sunny month, because of anticyclones, but was also the trostiest month of the year, with 20 ground frosts. November saw the record average wind speed equalled with a speed of 5.1 metres a second. The highest maximum temperature recorded for the year, 37deg. C was on February 15, anithe lowest minimum temperature. ? ; was —4.4 deg., on June 18 ■ • Tlie. dry weather continued into January of this year. The highest maximum temperature for last month was 32deg. and the lowest minimum temperature, 3.sdeg.