AUGUST WEATHER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 6

AUGUST WEATHER

CHANGEABLE AND DRY. 1 The weather for the month of August was changeable in character, dominated chiefly by westerly disturbances, with the lowest pressure passing southward of the Dominion. The most noticeable of these depressions was one which ruled between August 14th and 25 th, and which wa« responsible for the bulk of the rainfall experienced locally. The aggregate rainfall for the month in Wellington was .2.80 inches. Which is 48 per cent, below the average of previous years. There were no particularly heavy fails, the greatest being 0.58 inches on the 18th, There were twelve days on which rain fell.. ' ' . .. With regard to the temperature, the shade temperature averaged 50.1 degrees, and this is 1J degrees above the average of previous years. The mean temperature on the grass was 35.2 degrees, and the last grass reading was 18.0 degrees, which, is equal to 13 degrees °t frost. This occurred on the morning of the 27th. There were 11 frosts recorded during the month. The wind force averaged 181 miles per day, being 36 miles per day under the mean. The greatest velocity was 41/ miles per day, which occurred during the 24 hours preceding 8 a.m. on the 24th. Sunshine totalled 164 hours 17 minutes, which is above the average by 23 hours 36 minutes, and equal to 51 per cent, of the possible.