"APRIL SHOWERS"

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 100, 1 May 1925, Page 8

"APRIL SHOWERS"

WELLINGTON'S FINE AND DRY MONTH.

The month of April was on the whole fine and dry in Wellington, for, although ram fell m measurable quantities on ten aays, yet the total, 2.62, was 32 per cent below the mean for this month for the previous sixty years, in which rain has been recorded in Wellington. The highest rainfall during the month was °.8Z on the 11th; .64 fell on the Sth. Although there were two days that recorded bright sunshine, the total, 184 i hours, is nearly 34 hours above the average for the month—s6 per cent, of the possible The moan temperature, 571 was 2.10 degrees above the average, lhe mean maximum, however, -was higher than the mean for the previous yekr vu Ile, .7 s m.can minimum was lower' Ine highest temperature recorded in the shade ,was 72 degrees on the 6th, and the lowest, 39.6, on the 13th. The earth temperatures at 3ft depth had a mean of oy.a, which is exactly the figure for the average in the previous years. At one loot, however, the temperature was one degree lower than that of previous years There was one very light frost on the grass, but this was less than a degree, lhe velocity averaged 229 miles per aay, which was five miles below tho mean for the month. On five days the average was under 100 miles per day, arid the highest velocity in twenty-four, hours was 436 miles, which was recorded on the morning of the 11th. High winds S'lfitf e£P erienced on tt<s 6th, 10th, and 16th. ISlortherlies greatly predominated; m fact, at 9 o'clock there were only four records of the wind having blown from the south. Barometric pressure was above normal, the highest bein^ t! °?^ c 4 uh a!ld the Jo^sfc. 29.456° inch ' differen<* being 1.126