Cold Mornings, Brilliant Days
Heavy frosts accompanied the lowest temperature recorded in Whangarei this year—42deg.—at 3 a.m. on Sunday. Frosts during the week-end were followed by brilliantly fine days. Cold morning temperatures were general throughout Northland. At Waipu, water froze in household pipes for the first time in living memory, and the frost was the heaviest for seven years. Water in buckets left indoors was frozen over, and some ice remained in shaded positions until 11 a.m. Frosts at Kaikohe were the worst for many years. Some districts experienced three consecutive hoar frosts on Saturday, Sunday and today. In Whangarei this morning the temperature rose two degrees to 44 deg. The barometric reading, 30.5, equals the highest this winter. The frosts, followed by sunshine and a slight breeze, did much to harden up sports grounds after the almost continuously* showery days of the past month.
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Northern Advocate, 18 July 1949, Page 4
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