SEPTEMBER WEATHER

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 6 October 1934, Page 9

SEPTEMBER WEATHER

OBSERVATIONS AT RIVERLEA. MILD TEMPERATURES GENERAL. September was a peculiar month for weather at Riverlea, with plenty of variety. It was a month of great contrasts and residents experienced • some very cold days and some very warm ones. Temperatures on the average were mild, but a southerly buster on September 10, 11 and 12 gave three cold days. Only one frost 3 was recorded, but that one was a 1 “stinger” and took plqce on iSeptem- } ber 3. Winds generally were light 1 breeze to fresh, but strong on September 12, from the south-east, on ( September 28 from the north-west and : September 29 from the west, whilst • gales were recorded from the south- • east on September 11 and from the , west on September 27. Wind direction 1 generally was westerly, blowing from the west on twelve days and from the north-west on seven. Seven days of ' south-easterly wind was recorded. Only one cloudless day was recorded but six in all were fine; ten days were fair; six were fair to cloudy and eight i were overcast. The thermometer at 9 a.m. ranged from 41 degrees i Fahrenheit on September 11 and 12 to i 63 degrees on September 22 and 24, 1 and gave a mean temperature at 9 a.m. 1 of 54.4 degrees. The actual minimum f temperature recorded was 32 degrees j on September 3 and the actual maxi- j mum was 70 degrees on September 22 ( and 24. Whilst the mean minimum j temperature was 47.45 degrees and the , mean maximum was 59.06 degrees. ( The actual mean temperature for ( the month was 53.255 degrees. The v barometer ranged from 28.85 inches 3 on September 26 To 29.70 inches on September 3, 16, 17 and 22, giving a v range of .85 of atf inch and a mean reading of 29.225 inches. Rain fell on fourteen days to a c total precipitation of 3.53 inches, with t a maximum of 0.88 of an inch on Sep- b tember 25 and ’ minimum 0.01 of an e iDch on September 27 and 28. Last year the September rainfall £ was 3".20 inches on 13 r days, with mini- „ mum of 1.11 inches on September 19. 'j

In 1932 the September rainfall was only 2.44 inches on 16 days with maximum of 0.80 of an inch on September 2 and in 1931 it was 6.53 inches on 22 days, with maximum of 1.50 inches on September 5. The driest September was in 1914, when only 2.39 inches fell on only eight days, with maximum of 0.89 of ail inch on September 1. The wettest was in 1928, when 10.19 inches were recorded on 23 days, with maximum precipitation of 1.13 inches on September 4 and also 1.03 inches on September 12. The average for the month is 4.866. inches. The rainfall for the quarter ended September 30 totalled 13.44 inches and fell on 51 days. Last year the same quarter gave a precipitation of 12.35 inches on 46 days. In 1932 the quarter’s rainfall was 13.41 inches on 47 .days and in 1931 the same period gave 24.07 inches on 72 days. The average for the quarter is 17.577 inches. The driest September quarter ever recorded was in 1914, when only 8.59 inches fell on- 38 daj's, and the wettest was in 1928, when 24.18 inches fell on 58 days.

The total rainfall this year to September 30 wgs 42.82 inches, which fell on 136 days, compared with 43 inches on 142 days last year; 39.92 inches on 143 dhys in 1932 and 52.03 inches on 156 days in 1931. The average rainfall for the first three-quarters of the j»ear is 45J023/ | inches, whilst the driest three-quarter period was in 1914 with only 34.85 inches on 122 days and the wettest was in 1929, with 56.10 inches on 143 days. VISIT BY AIR,. A few days ago Flying-Officer W. E. Hooper, piloting one of the Western Federated Aero Clubs’ planes, paid a visit to Riverlea with his brother, Mr 11. Hooper, of Riverlea, as a passenger. The pilot gave his old friends and neighbours a few thrills- by flying low over their houses, and when over his brother’s place looped the loop. The friends and neighbours were delighted by the visit, but some of their animaL did not seem to take it so kindly.