JULY WEATHER

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 269, 9 August 1943, Page 6

JULY WEATHER

Cold And Sunny With Light Winds “The month of .Inly was cold though sunny,” says the Director of the (Meteorological Services, Wing Commander M. A. F Barnett, in his notes on the weather. “Winds were mainly light and tho absence of stormy conditions has marie the winter not so severe on stock as it might have been. It is reported that autumn-sown erops are making steady progress. "Rainfall was frequent over the North Island, but most places received less than the normal total, except between Raglan and Wellington, Including all Taranaki, where falls were moderately above. Rain was less frequent in the south and there the deficiencies were, more marked-. Excess rain, however, was recorded on the Kalkoura coast and over Banks Peninsula, chiefly as the result of very heavy rain about, the 12th. The driest areas were Xelsnn. most of Marlborough and a belt lying oast of the ranges and si retching from Lake Coleridge to Invercargill. “Tom pi th lures were low throughout the mouth. The only parts to have menus up to average were the far north and Hawkes Ilav. Frosts were frequent but not severe except in those areas which received the heavy snow nt the end of June. In sneh plm-es snow lay on the ground lor n number of jlays. As a result of the de,,arttires at Hamner. Ophir and I'alrlie, for example, were several degrees below normal and for the last-named the mean was equal to that of the coldest month on rC "“l'lxco-pt for Banks Peninsula and the Wairaraiin, the sunshine totals were appreciably above average values and new recordH were established in Tauranga, Wanganui, Westport nnd Meth ven.”