WEATHER IN APRIL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23026, 2 May 1938, Page 11

WEATHER IN APRIL

UNSETTLED CONDITIONS RAINFALL ABOVE AVERAGE Following an exceptionally fine March, the month of April in ~ u s ,7 land was unsettled, with a rainfall amounting to almost twice the average. The weather was in contrast to that experienced in April, 1937, the rainfall was below the average. !hetotal fall for last month was /.38m., over 17 tho maximum being 2.35 in. on April 5, according to the report of the Government observer, Mr. S. M. Yallop. The fall in April, 19:37, was 2.37rn., and the average tor the month is 3.80 in. „ Indicative of the unsettled conditions that were general last month are the facts that there was thunder and lightning on two days, and that the winds, which were generally moderate, with northerlies.to north-easterlies predominating, reached gale force on two days. There was high humidity during the greater part of the month. The mean barometric reading for the month was 30.018 in., the maximum being 30.081 in. -on April 10, and the minimum 29.530 in. on April "28. Jhe mean temperature was 68,4 _ degrees, the mean maximum being 73.5 degrees and the mean minimum 63.3 degrees. The extreme maximum was '9... degrees on April 4, the extreme minimum 55 degrees on April 27, and the lowest grass reading 48 degrees on the same day. . , , There -were only two days •without sunshine last month. The total for the month was 1461). 18m. the maximum being 10h 18m on April 20. The total sunshine for April, 1937, was 166 h 24m.