IT STILL RAINS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 70, 20 September 1943, Page 6

IT STILL RAINS

ANOTHER WET WEEKEND

• "Wet weekends in Wellington.are becoming as monotonous as stew for dinner in • boarding-houses. Rain, which began on Saturday, fell practically continuously the whole of yesterday and last night, saturating still further the: already sodden ground and. postponing once again any possibility of digging for victory. Digging drains to draw off the superfluous water was more to the point. The only redeeming feature about 'yesterday's weather was that there was? almost a complete absence of wind, and; it was also comparatively mild. Saturday's rainfall as measured at Kelburn totalled 15 points and yesterday's, 74 points, making 89 points, or a little less' than one inch for the weekend.. September's total is now 6.37 inches,: compared with an average 6;fi3;4s:f6r:theHindnth, very nearly an excess of three inches. There are another ten days of.the month still to come and about 4J, inches more of rain will have to fall before the September record, .one made 70 years ago, of approximately 11. inches, is beaten. • ; ■■■> It < started' to rain in Wellington about four months ago and has been raining practically ever since. The autumn was a comparatively dry one, but June made amends by being the wettest June on record with a. fall of just over 10 inches, some six inches more than the average. July followed up with the Comparatively modest fall of 5£ inches, a little over half-an-inch more than the average, but August did better, or rather worse, with a fall of nearly seven inches, a little less than three inches more than usual. September, 'with a third of the month still to come,:has added nearly 6& inches -more. ' v /i the last four months, therefore, Wellington has had poured on it 28.76 inches of rain, almost 12 inches more than the normal fall for the four months. Wet as it has been in Wellington the rainfall in the Hutt Valley has been even more excessive.