DULL, DAMP, AND COLD

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 2, 3 July 1933, Page 3

DULL, DAMP, AND COLD

THE WEATHER IN JUNE

VERY LITTLE SUN

In the June just passed Wellington experienced a dull, damp, and very cold month. The mean temperature was 2.6dcg below the ■ average for June. On only three occasions since 1864 has this departure from the avc-.j rage been exceeded. The last was 1927, when the moan was 3.sdeg below normal. In IDO3 it was 3.ldeg below, but j tho most severe of all was IS9I, when tho departure amounted to 3.7deg. The number of hours of sunshine totalled only 77.4. during tho mouth. Sunshine has been recorded since 1907, and the average for June is 106.9 hours. This year, therefore, an hour a day less than normal was experienced. Though the weather was dull and humid and misty rain foil frequently, the total rain was 34 per cent, below tho average at Kelburn. The_ period from June 6 to-June 22 was particularly cold, especially from the loth to tho 18th During "the latter four days tho temperature failed, to. reach 45 degrees at any time. From the 23rd to the end of the month conditions bceamo mild and vegetation soon showed much fresh growth. Tho mean barometric pressuro was 30.031 inches, while the. normal for June is 29.954 in. The highest reading at 9 a.m. was 30.334 mon June 9, and tho lowest 29.293 in on June 1. The mean maximum temperaturo was 50.5deg, while tho normal is o3.9deg. The mean minimum was 42.0deg, and the normal is 43.2deg. The approximate mean temperature was 46.2deg, whereas the normal is 4S.6deg. The highest maximum temperature occurred on June 4, namely, 57.1dcg, and the lowest maximum 35.0deg on the 13th. The mean minimum of the grass was 38.8dcg and the lowest was 27.6deg on the 10th. Frosts occurred at Kelburn also, on tho 12th and 13th. LESS WIND THAN USUAL. The average run of wind in 24 hours was 197 miles. The June average is 208" miles, so that there was rather less wind 'than usual. The greatest run in 24 hours was 405 miles to !) a.m. on June 16, in a strong southerly. The mean amount of cloud at 9 a.m. was tho sky eight-tenths covered. The total rain was 2.75 in, recorded on 17 days. The average for June is 4.19 in on'l7 days. The heaviest fall occurred on June 4 (0.51 in). At the Karori reservoir the total rainfall was 3iSm on 20 days; the normal is 4.7£iin for 17 days. Bright sunshine totalled 77.4 hours, or 2.6 hours a day. There was a thunderstorm of brief duration on the morning of June 2. Frequent hail showers occurred on the 6th, Bth, 15th, and 16th. On the morning of the 15th tho hail was sufficiently heavy to give the ground a whito coat which took some time to melt away. On that morning a few flakes of snow fell at Karori. Fogs -were recorded on five days, that of the 27th being very dense and widespread and lasting for several hours. Snow was low down on the Tararuas on the sth, and from the 6th to the 9th there was a considerable amount on the Rimutakas. By the 14th it had all disappeared, but there was another fall on tho 15th.