UNSEASONABLE WEATHER

Northern Advocate, 3 October 1930, Page 4

UNSEASONABLE WEATHER

HAIL 1 AND PROST.

EXPERIENCES IN DISTRICT,

The seasons appear to have become topsy-turvy with, mid-winter intruding upon spring. Yesterday morning it appeared as though the equinoctial 1 uncertainty had passed and a period of settled weather was likely, but in the early afternoon a very heavy hail shower fell, leaving a frozen belt across the Whangarei county. Motorists travelling along the flat between Wamo and Opuawhanga saw a most unusual spectacle, especially for this time of year. The flats were covered with a white blanket, and as the fronit car moved along it deft dark tracks in. the surface. At the corners, where it had been carried down the gutterways, the hail lay in places four inches thick, and when, itho party returned two hours later the ground was still white, although less so than before. Last night was bitterly cold, and although the minimum thermometer reading at Mr Hanlon’s recording place was 33 degrees, or one above freezing point, the lower-lying parts of the district did not escape a very severe frost. The service ear driver saw ice lying quite ' thick on the twin bridges in the Mangakahia Gorge. If the weather does not become warmer shortly there is little hope of the, frost-with-ered tarairo and puriri trees in the valley recovering their evergreehness.