COOL AND CHANGEABLE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 127, 2 June 1927, Page 4

COOL AND CHANGEABLE

"On the whole the we!ither_in May may bo described as being cool and changeable," said the Dominion Meteorologist (Mr. D. O. Bates) to-day. The total rainfall for the month was 5.77 in, which is liv above the average for the previous 60 years. This increase is due largely to the wet weather experienced last week, and to the particularly heavy falls on the 20th and 27th, when the total amount of rain that fell on the two days was 3.Bin. Rain fell in measurable quantities on 13 days. The month was colder than usual, the temperature, Sl.9cleg, being nearly 1 deg below the average. The extreme minimum temperature recorded was 35.9deg, iv the shade on 7th, and the highest reading 62.7deg on 21st. There were seven frosts, and the lowest reading on the grass was 27.1deg. _ > The average daily velocity of the wind was 200 miles, and the maximum 408 miles. On 13th the minimum velocity, 14 niiles, was recorded. The amount of wind on the whole was less than usual. There were 127hrs 13min of sunshine, which is 3%hrs below the average. Earth temperatures both at lft and at 3ft wero below the usual. The mean barometric pressure was 29.948 in, which is slightly below the mean for previous years. The highest reading, 30.296 in, was taken on 2nd, and the lowest, 29.528 in, on iGth, giving a range of .708 in.