THE VALLEY FREEZES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 144, 21 June 1933, Page 11

THE VALLEY FREEZES

BUT NOT SO THE CITY Residents in the .Hutt Valley this morning awoke to sec the ground white with frost, and thermometers showed that the hardest frost of the' present winter had been recorded, the,mercury falling to as low a point as 24.6 degrees. But they were much surprised* and not & little envious in some cases,? to find that residents in the city\ had not had their gardens visited by frost during the night. In fact, the 'gross minimum of the thermometers .at Kelburn during the night never got lower than 38 degrees. This remarkable difference between city and Hutt Valley temperatures is accounted for by the calm and clear conditions which prevailed in the Valley last night, allowing rapid radiation from the cold air descending from the hills, and hence frost. Wellington, oh the other hand, had an overcast sky during the night and a gentle breeze, these factors preventing the development of frost. Early this morning, as the cold air from the Hutt Valley came into contact with the warmer waters of the harbour, a thick, fog developed aloiig the foreshore. The only consolation that Hutt Valley residents got out of these phenomena was the fact that the Valley was bathed in sunshine as soon as the sun rose this morning, making 'the morning bright as well as bracing, whereas conditions in Wellington were more gloomy.