THE WEATHER.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10706, 16 July 1895, Page 2

THE WEATHER.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib,— Many people have used the remark “unprecedented”; in reference to the present severe snow weather. My> first winter in the colonies, 1878, was VejgS like it, only worse 1 . J.believe the sM|i lay for eight days in and around Avonside. As far as I can remember, Lyttelton Harbour was thinly coated with ice. I. remember feeling the cold .most terribly, for on leaving the Old .Country we had been assured there •' was “ no winter ” in the colonies! “ genial tempera-

ture” prevailed all the • year round. Consequently we were quite unprovided with winter clothing. If yon refer to the Lyttelton Times of July 23, ]RVB, you will read that the road between Hucauui and Lakes, Station for twenty miles was covered with snow from 14 to 17 inches in depth. A particularly heavy fall was reported on July 18; old settlers declared they had never experienced anything like it. One pond was strongly enough frozen to permit of skating. On July 27 a very rough journey is reported from the West Coast over forty miles of snow. It seemed to culminate on July 30, when it was feared the Waimakariti might overflow its hanks.—l am, &c., LUCILLA.