THE WEATHER.
Heavy rain fell intermittently in North Canterbury on Saturday, and when the clouds lifted the hills between Oxford and Mount Grey were Been to be snow-covered to their base. The rainfall registered at ltangiora for the forty-eight hour 3 ended at midnight on Saturday was 2.075 in. The weather was beautifully fine yesterday, nnd it is expected that the rain will put the ground in good order for ploughing and winter sowing. • The weather which prevailed in the Ashburton district during the whole of Friday night and the greater part of Saturday morning and again during the early part of Saturday night and well into yesterday morning promised to be disastrous, but soon after 2 a.m. the bitterly cold rain and hail showers ceased. The ground was white with frost _at ‘sunrise yesterday morning, and it oould be seen that there had .been a heavy fall of snow on the fronts and tope of .the ranges. The rain, bail, sleet and snow did not last long enough 1 any dtfmage in the back country. The diot'aj ‘ rainfall in Ashburton from Friday ' lucrning till nine o'clock yes-terday-;*morning was 2.05 in. The thermCmeter- registered 12deg of frost yesterday morning.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14978, 26 April 1909, Page 9
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199THE WEATHER. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14978, 26 April 1909, Page 9
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