RECORD EQUALLED
"RAIN SPELL" UNBROKEN
An isolated shower fell this morning, just after midnight, >and gave one point of rain in the gauge at Kelburn.
Normally this one point would be regarded as of but little account, but it so happens that it may be destined to play quite a conspicuous part in local meteorological records. It provides the requisite rain during the twentyfour hours ending at 9.30 a.m. today for the official continuation of the "rain spell." This has now lasted nineteen days, thus equalling the Record established in June, 1887. Fifteen consecutive days with rain constitute a "rain spell" in meteorological parlance, and the present is only the third occasion in its meteorological history that Wellington has had such attention paid to it by Jupiter Pluvius. The other occasion was in 1871. also in June. Today's forecast suggests that a period of showers is likely tonight. If that comes off, the present "rain spell" will be extended to twenty-days and the record will be broken.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 9
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