A MILD WINTER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 July 1924, Page 5

A MILD WINTER.

THE WEATHER FOR JUNE, (BY telegraph-—press association.'. WELLINGTON. July 7. The Dominion meteorologist supplies the following weather summary for the month, of June:— , “The first- half of the year which June completed will be remembered in the North as a period of heavy rain. The rainfalls in June were also much above the average in the high levels of the. South, but below' the normal in some of the East Coast districts of both islands. Other parts of the. country varied little from the average of the same month in previous years. There were several falls of snow r on the ranges, but these quickly -thawecl and the season has so far on the whole been rather mild, though frosts were frequent in the East Coast districts of the South Island. “An observer in Southland ventures to remark that the season has been far too good for this time of the year and too mild. There are still too many blow'flies about, and unless- it becomes much rougher in July and August, the spring and autumn are not likeTy to be good. There were four distinct westerly disturbances during the month, which culminated on the Bth and 12th, and two which passed in the South on the 18th and the 24th, and the weather between the 17th Jnd the 27th was very unsettled with heavy showers in many parts of the countrv. An ex-tronical rvclone oassed in the North and East Coast districts on the 14th and loth, causing easterly gales and tremendous sea-s on the East Coast, especially ahont Gisborne and Napier. “As is usual in the winter months, the -storms alternated with periods of (■•sum, but on the whole in winter the total velocity of winds is usually less than in summer.”