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SUN RESPONSIBLE FOE RECENT.
BAD WEATHER,
(BI IBUEGIUPH.—SPHCiAL TO THE POSt.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. Mr. Clement Wragge, the Meteorologist, blames the sun for the mild deluge that Auckland has been experiencing for the last few days. "The sun is in an altogether-abnormal condition," said Mr. Wragge yesterday. "In fact, during my long experience I do not remember the sun having been so active. Five enormous, disturbances are now in operation on the solar photosphere, and they average from 25,000 miles to 45,000 miles in diameter. That the unusual season—including the heavy rains —is due to solar influence there is no doubt whatever. The sun's condition was the main cause of the heavy rain and floods in Australia, and the storm that has just been experienced in New Zealand is the same as. that which produced the heavy rainfall in Australia. We wish our Australian friends'to know that further heavy rains may be expected, and that th 6 season in Australia, apart from the damage caused by floods, will be distinctly good."
Asked when he thought umbrellas ' might be discarded and more seasonable garments donned, Mr. Wragge was .not too hopeful He said it would take some time before the influence of the \ disturbance ceased.
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 90, 13 October 1916, Page 6
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