OCTOBER WEATHER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 287, 7 November 1925, Page 5

OCTOBER WEATHER.

METEOROLOGIST’S REPORT. AN INTERESTING REVIEW. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Nov. 6. The director of the meteorological office reports: The conditions during the first week of the month were in keeping with the weather experienced during winter and the first mouth of spring, but, on the whole, October, which is regarded as the second month of the spring season, was a great improvement-, and favourable to growth and progress in agricultuarl and ' pastoral pursuits. Westerly winds predominated and five westerly disturbances were experienced, only one of which, however, was of much intensity. This storm passed in the south between the 13th and loth, causing heavy winds and considerable rain, especially in the south. Anti-cyclonic conditions prevailed over the whole of the Dominion during the last week of the month, with tine sunny days and cold frosty nights, particularly about the 28th and 29th, when much tender growth was bitten by frost iti several parts of the country. The rainfall was below the average in most parts of the country, the exceptions being in the Nelson and Central Otago provinces, which experienced from 20 to 90 per cent, above the average rainfalls, and most other parts of the country were below the average for October to the same extent.