SEPTEMBER WEATHER

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 7, 3 October 1927, Page 9

SEPTEMBER WEATHER

USUAL SHOWERS September, meteorologically the firslj month of spring, has this year shown the showery conditions usual to tne season. Although less in numbers, there was, as* in August, a predominance of depressions of the circular type, there being only one westerly disturbance, which are usually the most common. Anti-cyclones of fair weather ruled in the beginning, middle, and at the close of the month. The total amount of rainfall for tMj month was 3.07 inches, which is below the mean bv 0.92 inches, or 33 per cent. There were sixteen days on which rain fell, and the grea est twenty-four hours’ fall was 1.23 inches, on the 20th. The mean shade temperature was slightly in excess of the average. The maximum occurred on the 18th, ana the minimum, 37.1 degrees, on the 30th. Seven frosts were the most severe being on the dUtn, when five degrees were registered Mean earth temperatures at depths of one and three feet were 51.3 degrees and 52 2 degrees respectively, both being very close to the average. The bright sunshine totalled one hundred and fiftv-nine hours eight minutes. Thia is forty-five per cent of the possible, and about four,and a half hours les® than the average. There were only three days on which no sunshine was recorded; and the brightest day vrat the 26th, with a total of ten hours fifty minutes. The wind force was not excessive, the daily average velocity otf 206 miles being lower than the usnaj bv 42 miles per day. A maximum or 442 miles was recorded for the twentyfour hours ending at 9 a.m. on the 21th. The total rainfall for the nine months ended September 30 was 32.42 inches, while the mean of previous vears was 37.18 inches. The difference thus being 4.76 inches.