DECEMBER SNOW
UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE
MANTLE ON EGMONT
(Special to the "Evening Post")
NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.
Fierce hailstorms that swept North Taranaki several times yesterday provided something new in Christmas week weather. They were accompanied by a heavy fall of snow on Mount Egmont, which was an unusual sight for this time of the year when the clouds lifted later for a brief period. Further falls of rain brought the December total to the highest since 1928.
Four falls of snow in four successive weeks in December have been unprecedented in the memory of residents of the province. The latest fall was the heaviest of all, leaving Mount Egmont in mid-winter guise. Snow lies thick as far down as the foot of Humphrey's Castle, 4000 feet above sealevel.
"Conditions could not have been worse it if had been mid-winter," said the manager of the North Egmont Hostel, Mr. H. Wood, in commenting on the storm. During the night sleet, hail, and half-melted snow, driven by a south-west wind of almost gale force, swept over the hostel. Conditions today were still far from pleasant.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 10
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