WET AND WINDY
WEATHER IN JULY
• July was a wet and windy month in Wellington, wjth sunshine well belOw the average, but with temperatures father higher than ndrmal.
Although maximum temperatures averaged about normal, minimum temperatures averaged as much as a little over two degrees above normal. The month's approximate mean temperature was 47.4 degrees, or one degree above the average for July. Not since 1925 have July's minimum temperatures been •so high, and there was a comparative absence of frosts. It was the windiest July since 1922, the daily run averaging 236 miles, or 50 miles a day more than normal.
The rainfall was just over twice the average for July, the total fall at Kelburn being 10.14 inches. There has not been a wetter July since 1692."'
There was over one hour's less sunshine a day than the average for July in previous years, the total number of hours of bright sunshine for the month being only 70.9, whereas a little over 100 hours may be normally ex?ected in July. It was the least suntty uly since 1917,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1942, Page 4
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180WET AND WINDY Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1942, Page 4
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