THE WEATHER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5652, 29 December 1879, Page 5

THE WEATHER.

A vl«on'f"Q f r°«SAver.-. g e : M.«.; i Min. ; \«kT endiDg Dec.-J7-: l "-'-'- i)rc 22j Dec. 27*| B.TO. (conectrf, j 20 ESS =3920 Temperatnretfay), 72-7 ; i S|;9_ 7S-0 (nichtv nOl ! tVI ' fi«s' I COG ■mean' 65 ■!) : — , — I t; >- („„,); 7.i-4 -J'S.SJh - - T> w I'l.int 1 SS-5 ! — _ , 50 4 Hamidity"(s 0-100 X 77-78 BfM> >. 20 70;7l. 24 70-71 Wind {velocity) *347-D m.SlimNv 233 m. S 223 i 0 m. Cloud (scale O-10; 73 ~ ' Total rainfall .. Ofllo in. 'o 415 in.' — j 0 4Soin. I I 2Glh • ' ' No. oT days* rain. J e Baro-net».r real twic-o d»ilr, iit I , " p.'"- -md »'. »-30 > m aho otcisionally in iim»s of atmo.'-iineric di<tnrbinc. All '!atß3 refer to 10 n.m , and o's-rva-lion? *re th 'S , "* of tli , * previous 24 hours. §At S3O a.m. 't X: 12500 p.m. 20th). t Wind S. toN.W. Wet, wurin. and cloae, with low baromtter, and much rain, ohangiug rather suddenly at the end of the week. Temperature, a little above average ; mean day, li decrees alsove, and mean night elight'y belovr the corresponding figures of last week.; approximate mean. O-> lower. Mean solar radiatidn, 125-0, with absolute extreme of 141 o on 25th ; mean terrestrial, 592, with minimum of 050 on 2/th ; these readings, for both avciagea and extremes, much higher than iu satnu week of last year, though all other readings of temperature are so much lower. The 4S hours from 9 a.m. on the 22ad to the eame hour of the 24th were remarkable for thtir damp and oppressive heat. In actual temperature, the litter d.iy was oue of the warmest of the yea-, only three other c'aya (all during summer) passing SO degrees. Rainfall in quantity a little over an average; heavy on the 25th and 2G;h ; one very faint shower during the night of the !3rd, and showers between sunset and sunrise on three other days. Wind fresh to strong throughout the Wf ek ; blowing very bard on the 31st (afteruom and night of Saturday, 20th), in continuation o£ the northerly gale of the two previous day?, but shifting to the west, and mostly hanging about that quadrant throughout the week. Barometric pressure rising rapidly to the mornin." of the 22nd, thenoo falling steadily to midday of the 27th (2Gth), when the mercury began to rise again slowly in regularity with the change of wind to W. and S.W. Averages for month of December, ISC4-7S :— Barometer (corrected) 21)934 Approximate mean temperature ... G:VG Kainfall (proportionate part for week)... 0721. Elwin B. Dicksos, Government Observer,