RIVERLEA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 August 1928, Page 8

RIVERLEA.

M EYEO E OLO GT CAL

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

July, following the. general trend of the weather this year, was fair with a rainfall' ;bclow average and milder than usual. There was also an almost total absence of high wind, only one gale, a fairly •heavy nor’-caster being recorded on the seventh. Wind direction was generally of an easterly and southerly "direction, blowing from itlio south-east, on eight days; from east on six days; from north-east on five days; from west on six days; from southwest and from north-west on three days each. There were no .calm days and only one, the fifteenth, was absolutelv cloudless. Between the fourteenth and twentieth there was a period of high barometcrie'al pressure with fine days and cold nights, during which period the severest frosts of the year so far were recorded. These occurred on the 18th, 19t‘h and 20th. The first of the 'three was the heaviest, but the others were also pret'ty severe. Pine, sunny days, however, _ succeeded the nights and the frosts did not lay beyond 'about 9 ia.m., except in shaded places where it lay all day. There were eleven fine days during the month, ten fair, six cloudy and four completely overcast. The thermometer at 9 a.m. ranged from a minimum air 'temperature of 41 degrees ’Fahrenheit, on the 19th to a maximum of 50 degrees on the eighth giving a mean 9 a.m. temperature of 48.5 degrees against 49.5 degrees in June and 50.45 degrees in May. Last year’s July 9 a.m. mean temperature was 47.5 degrees. The actual minimum temperature recorded was 33 degrees an the IStli at dawn and the actual maximum 59 degrees on the 27th, giving an actual mean temperature of 40 degrees, against 47 degrees in June; 50.45 in May, and 45.5 degrees in July, 1927. The barometer ranged from a 25.93 on the 9th, 'the centre of an extensive low pressure- accompanied with heavy rain to a. maximum of 29.78 on the Kith and 17th, giving a range of .85 of an inch and a mean reading of 29.355 inches. I ( Jtain, to ;a total' precipitation of 5.82 inches fell during the month on seventeen days with a maximum of 1.89 inches on the eigth and a minimum of a trace only on the third. During the seventh and eighth 3.65 inches fell altogether, viz., 1.89 on the eighth, and 1.76 on the seventh. The month ’Ls rainfall ’ was over an inch below the •average for July, which is 6.925 inches. - Last year 8.78 inches fell-during July on twenty-eight; days with a maximum of 2.49 inches on the 25th and in July, 1926, the .precipitation whs 6.69 inches on 19 days with a maximum of 2.01 inches, also on the 25th. The wettest July on record so far as quantity of rain was concerned was in 1915 when 10.93 inches fell on twelve 'days with a maximum precipitation of 4.80 inches on the 21st and n fall of l.S'l on the previous day giving 6.61 inches in forty-eight hours. Actually the wettest July was that of last year with twenty-eight wet days. The driest July was that of 1925 when only 4.21 inches fell on seventeen days with a maximum precipitation of exactly one inch on the twenty-third. The'rainfall for the year to. the end of July whs 33.22 inches which fell on 99 days. Last; year 'during the .(sovien months 44.87 inches fell on 132 days and in 1926 the precipitation was 40.42 inches on 111 days.