Warmer days in June
Christchurch daytime temperatures in June were at least one degree warmer than normal, in spite of a number of cold snaps and snow on June 15- . . The Meteorological Office reported, however, that temperatures at night were slightly colder than
normal, 22 ground frosts being recorded at Christchurch Airport. This is four more than normal for June. The hardest frost was 9.9 deg and was the second-hardest frost at the airport since records began there in 1954. The
hardest was lO.ldeg in 1978. The airport had only 54 per cent of its normal rainfall. Total rainfall for the first six months of the year was 330 mm at the airport, compared with 195 mm at the corresponding time last year.
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