AUCKLAND'S RAINFALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17979, 3 January 1922, Page 6

AUCKLAND'S RAINFALL.

FIGUREB FOR PAST. YEAR. TOTAL OF 39.68 INCHES. DECREASE FOR THE PERIOD. , The total rainfall in Auckland for the , past year, as registered at the Albert Park ! I Observatory by Mr. F. A. F. Burnett, s j 'official observer, war 39.60 in. Thin is , 118.49 in. below the total for 1920, when 11 53.17 iii. was registered—the tlnrd highest ] j' year's fall on record. The average for the j 11 past 66 years is about- 40.71 in., but in 1916 j I the rainfall was 67.10 in., and in 1917 the J . | total was 74.51 in. The lowest known i , • yearly fail in Auckland was 28.14 m., in j , 1885, and the highest was m 1917, when j P the total fall was 34.83 m. greater than j [, that of *1923. i 1 The following table shows the monthly j . j falls for last year ar.d for the oorrespond--11 ing periods of the three preceding . vears: — ! ' mi. 1920. 1919. 191 S. ! J&nuarj . . . 3.07 4.55 1.70 4.17 > : February . . 2.37 4.59 O.M 4.41 > March .... ]»37 416 2.07 5.53 i i April . ... 2.92 6.12 1.12 4.P6 , , i May . ... 1.35 5.59 6.94 2.571 . i June . c . . 6.85 8.55 s 3.46 7.96 1 1 , July . . . 3.42 3.73 4.15 694 : > ! August . . 2.59 6.00 3.00 3.521 [ , September . . 3.72 5.03 3.56 2.56 ! , I October . . 6.01 2.94 3.52 8.03! ' j November . . 2.00 3.67 2.16 2.5 C i 1 December . . 3.98 3.17 1.35 2.25 L Totals .■ . 39.69 58.17 33.41 54.36. ' | The rainfall in Auckland for last month '[was 3.98 m., as compared with 3.17 in. for! '! the corresponding period of 1920, and j 1.55 in. in 1919. Bain fell on 13 days, the j maximum fall for 24 hours being 1.24 in. j ! for the period endine at 9 a.m. on Decern- j ' I ber 10. The lowest rainfall for December j , was .13in., in 1897, and the highest was ! s 8.59 in., in 1916, so that although the I , j month's total is in advance of the last , three years it is by no means abnormal.