WELLINGTON COLD SNAP.
SEVERE FROBT RECORDED. RECORDS AT THE OBSERVATORY. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The bite of winter was felt in Wellington last night and this morning, a severe frost being experienced. The official record was 11 degrees. " A more severe frost 2£ degrees lower, was recorded in Wellington on July 9, of last year, and there was also one 3£ degrees lower than that of this morning during July, 1918," said the director of the Meteorological Office, Mr. D. C. Bates, to-day. " That was practically the minimum recorded in Wellington. In former days the frosts that were recorded were not so severe as latterly, probably because the observatory was then Bituated at the top of the Sydney Street Cemetery site, and it is a well-known fact that frosts on the hillsides are not so severe as those on tho fiats. Sheep for instance always make for the top of hills at nighttime in order to avoid frosts."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18762, 16 July 1924, Page 10
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