DULL AND CHANGEABLE
DECEMBER'S RECORD.
December proved to be a cool month, with dull and changeable weather, quite in accordance with the general backwardness of ;the season. The aver-age-temperature was 58,7 degrees, which is below the average! The maximum temperature was reached on the 29th, when 74.7 degrees was recorded. On the.morning of the 4th the lowest readiSg (41.3 degrees) was registered. There were, no frosts on the grass dur; ing the month. The month's rainfall was half.an inch over the average, the total being 3.78. inches, with a maximum fall of. 91 .points, on the' 11th.
During the month there were four days without Aany bright sunshine at all, the total for : the month being 211 hours 10 . minutes, over 28 hours less than the average. There was less wind than usual during the month, the daily average velocity being 40 miles less than the average. The daily average was: 238J miles, with :a: maximum of 593 miles on the 14th and a minimum of 36 miles on another day.
1 Barometric pressure fluctuated between 30.512. inches- and 29.001 inches, the average being 29.935. -.'■■-.-••.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 3 January 1927, Page 10
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185DULL AND CHANGEABLE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 3 January 1927, Page 10
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