UNSEASONAL COLD
FROST AT ROTOEUA SHARP TEMPERATURE DROP (0.C.) ROTORUA, Thursday Rotorua lias experienced an extraordinary gradation of temperature this week. On Christinas live a maximum temperature of 85.8deg was recorded, which dropped yesterday to f)o.7deg. This morning a frost of (i.7deg was registered. Rotorua seldom has lrosts so Jato in the year, and the latest, which seriously aflooted the growth of vegetables, particularly pumpkins, peas, beans and tomatoes, was the most severe for at least 20 years. December of 1930 was an unusually cold month, in which nine fronts were recorded, the heaviest being of tideg. After a showery and cold night the skies were clear today, with the_teinperature at 3 p.m. reading 03.7deg. There is every indication now that line weather will continue.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25396, 28 December 1945, Page 4
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