RIVERLEA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 August 1927, Page 7

RIVERLEA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

M ETEOR OLOGICA L. July, though by ho means the wettest month on record in point of quantity of rain, was the wettest ill number of days with rain, having no less than 28 wet days to its credit (!'). Except for this, the weather, though by no means warm, was generally milder than is usually experienced in the seventh month of the year, there being very few frosts; indeed, only three l were recorded, one, by far the severest of the year to date l , on the loth; a fairly sharp one on the 24th; and an almost imperceptible trace ot frost- on the 22nd. Excepting for a gale of exceptional severity on the 25th, which was accompanied by a torrential downpour of rain, winds generally during the month wore not very high, ranging chiefly from light to fresh breezes. Wind blew from southwest on seven clays; from south-east on seven days; from north-east on four; from north, south-west, and north-west on three days each; from east on two and from south on one. One day, the loth, the only really fine day in the month, was both windless and cloudless. There were only five days in all during the month which might he counted as fine, and even then rain fell in the nights; seven days were fair; twelve cloudy, and seven were completely overcast. Ihe thermometer at 9 a.m. ranged from a

minimum of 40 degrees Fahrenheit on the 14th to a maximumo of 55 degrees on the 5 th. giving a mean of 47.5 degrees. The actual lowest temperature recorded was 32 degrees on the loth, and the actual highest was 59 de*grees on the 26th. giving an actual mean temperature of 45.5 degrees-. The barometer ranged from 28.73 to 29.56, with a mean of 29.145. Rain to a total of 8.78 inches fell on no less than 28 days out of the 31; the maximum pre ipitation recorded was 2.49 inches on the 95th. and the minimum, a trace, out he 24th. Last year 6.69 inches foil on 19 da vs. with a maximum oi 2.01 also on the 25th. The average f>r the month being; 0.0925 inches., this year was over two inches above the average. The wettest July iecorded here was in 1915. when no less than 10.93 inches fell, though there were only 12 rainy days. The maximum precipitation that year writs 4.80 n-liif-h foil on the- 21st. Ihe

July nearest corresponding to the one just past, was in 1917. when 0.98 inches fell on 27 days, with a maxiilium of 1.51 on the 6th. The cliiost July recorded was in 1920. when only 4.21 inches fell on 17 days with, a maximum of iust one inch on the 23rd. The wettest days of July appear to he • renerallv between the 20th and the 97th. though 1917. when the heaviest fall was on the 6th. was* an exception to the rule. Last year there were three exceptionally wet days at that period, viz.—the 24th with 1.12 inches, the 2oth with 2.01 inches, and the 26th with 1.66 inches. So far this year there has been very little more rain than last year, but there have been many more wet days, as will he seen by the fact that this rear to the end of July we have had 4 1.87 inches on 132 days against 40.42 inches last year on 111 days. August has opened fairer, and let us hope "it will continue so. though the barometer, and incidentally the Government meteorologist, are both pessimistic.

KTJCHRE PARTY. Tuesday's euchre party again saw keen competition and a good attendance. Mrs. Thorp, who is consistently to the front, again had to play off for the prize, but this time she had to lower her colours to Aliss Brooker, whii won the ladies’ prize, a fancy box, after a keenly contested final with her doughty opponent. The gentlemen’s prize fell to Mr. -J. IT. •Jones with eleven games. Air. l/fchtwark. with ten games, being runnerup. Aliss Brooker and Airs Thorp won nine games each.