METEOROLOGICAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1935, Page 8

METEOROLOGICAL

PHASES OF THE MOON. August, 1935.

THE SUN. The sun set,s to-day at 5.7 p.m.; rises to-morrow at 7.3 a.m. WEATHER REPORT. Wind, east; barometer, 30.39; thermometer, 45; bar, considerable swell; river, normal; weather, overcast; rainfall, five points. AT OTHER CENTRES.

WEATHER FORECAST. General inference: An anticyclone over New Zealand is centred west of the Auckland Peninsula. A depression is located on the south-west Tasman Sea. ; Forecast; Moderate to fresh west to ’north-west winds. Weather cloudy and hnild, with some scattered showers [likely. Seas moderate to rather rough. - — JULY WEATHER REVIEW. ! The Dominion Meteorolog.st reports: I The weather in July showed some j remarkable contrasts both in eharac-1 ter and location. In most parts of the country, however, in the period upj til! about the 23rd, with the exception ' of a cold break from the 7th to the :

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10th, many days were mild for the season of the year, and there was evidence of this in the early blooming of spring plants and an appreciable growth in pasture. During the remainder of the month, on the other hand, conditions were cold owing to persistent and, at times, strong southerly winds prevailing. Accounts received indicate that in most localities grass was relatively, plentiful, although in some it was necessary to resort to supplementary feeding, and on the whole, stock kept in good condition. In the South Island the weather was favourable to all farming pursuits, so that winter sowing of wheat and oat crops appears to have been above the average.

Temperatures did not vary greatly from the average, the difference being mainly a negative one, but at a few places about Cook Strait and on the east coast of the South Island, it was slightly above. Although frosts were frequent in the South Island they were not unusually severe. Rainlall over the whole of the South Island and in parts of the Taranaki Bight and central area of the North Island was below the average, while in the remainder of the North Island it was above. The largest differences above occurred in the North Auckland district where in places, it was more than double and the highest July fall ever experienced. The greatest deficiency was experienced in the western and southern areas of the South Island. In lhe western and southern districts of the South Island, as might be expected from the low rainfall recorded there, the month was fairly sunny. Canterbury and Marlborough \n the South Island had slightly less than their average amount of sunshine, but most of the North Island, with the exception of the area about Cook Strait, experienced a deficiency, although the difference was nowhere a great one. Hokitika had 179 hours. Nelson 176, and Blenheim 143 hours' sunshine.

First Quarter Sth 12.53 a.m. Full Moon 15 th 0.13 a.m. Last Quarter 21st 2.47 p.m. New Moon 29th 0.30 p.m.

.Manukau Heads SW. overcast 30.12 51 Cape Kgmunt WSW. calm 30.10 52 Wtiitgaiiol XW. blue sky 30.10 52 Weilltuttun X. cloudy 30,30 52 Cape Campbell XW. blue sky 30.25 III Farewell Spli SW. blue sky 30.30 57 Westport S S \ V. blue sky 30.10 50 Arthur's Pass XW blue-sky 3X Kalltoura X. blue sky 3O.2X 13 Christchurch calm blue sky 30 21 11 Dunedin X. clouds 30.21 17 HltllT X. cloudy 30.11 50 Puysej’ur Point XW. cloudy ::o.ii ii