A RECORD OF RAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 44, 20 August 1941, Page 6

A RECORD OF RAIN

The public will hardly need to be told that this is a record spell of wet weather; most people were fully conscious that something was wrong, and if it was not a record, they felt, well, it ought to be. It has not yet reached the scriptural proportions of the Flood, when it rained for forty days and forty nights, but it has already passed the half-way mark, this being the twenty-first consecutive day on which rain has fallen. True, there have been days when the sun jhas shone during the "spell," but the rules which govern the creation of | new records in wet weather have been duly observed when a sprinkle from the skies has registered the required "pointage" to constitute rain. On most days the public have been left in no doubt whatever that it was raining, and last night was well up to standard, while today the skies are still uncertain. It is some satisfaction in the midst of the discontent to know that this is the longest rain spell in the meteorological history of Wellington, which, though it has not yet attained its centennial, does go back a long time and includes a nineteen-day record in June, 1887, and another in the same month in 1871. These, of course, will now retire into the background kekm &J fierfoimangi sf fefe-

August, 1941. It has been said that Wellington people take their pleasures sadly, like the phlegmatic English; it is certain they take their weather with cheerful philosophy, not unduly buoyed up by the sunshine and days which visitors say are unexcelled anywhere, nor unduly cast down by storms from the south or rain from any quarter. -After all, there is much to be said for variety in climate. It takes one's mind off other things.