COLD, DAMP JUNE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 1, 1 July 1925, Page 6

COLD, DAMP JUNE

A PROPER WINTER MONTH.

From the conditions experienced during last month there is no mistaking the fact that June-is a proper winter month. Apart from three very severe aoiitherJies, the state of the weather was cold and damp generally, temperatures being low and rainfall heavy. As for sunshine there was only 27 per cent, of the possible, the total recorded sunshine for the month being only 76 hours 17 minutes. There were only two really' fine spells, one about the 4th and sth, and the other between the 19th and 22nd. The rainfall, according to the official records of the Meteorological Office, -totalled 8.33 inches, which is 72 per cent, above the average- for the month. Rain fell on 21 days, the maximum for on» day being 1.13 inches, registered on the 13th. The previous month was also very wet, and in connection with the rainfall records for th<S two months it is interesting to note that the total fall for May and June of this year was considerably ' more than double the amount registered during the corresponding period last: year, while the total for last month was greater by about If inches, than the total for May and June last year. The mean temperature for last month was 37.7 degrees, being nearly 2 degrees below the average of former years. The minimum, on the 18th; was 32.3, and the maximum, on the 29th, 62.0 F. Earth temperatures were below the average for the month, the mean for the month being 46.8 degrees F. ab one foot (3.4 degrees below the average). Eight frosts occurred during last month, the lowest, reading of the thermometer on the grass being 24.3 degrees on the morning of tho 18th, when there were 7.7 degrees of frost. Fogs were recorded on the 6th, 25th, and 27th,-and hail fell on the 12th and 13th. The average daily velocity of the wind was 236 miles—2B miles above, the average for .the month. The highest velocity for one' day was on the 15th, when the reading was 624 miles. (BI TELEORAr-H.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The month- of June; in Canterbury was the coldest June since 1913, and the wettest since 1911.