SUNSHINE AND RAIN

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11409, 4 January 1923, Page 3

SUNSHINE AND RAIN

WELLINGTON FIGURES. • . ___ GETeeare in BOTH CASES. • -Wellington for the past year got very near to establishing-now figures for low rainfall. Tho total for tho year shorn only 29-23 in. The previous smalleM rainfall was in 1919, when only ffiHia felL The Average for previous yaazeria however very much gmtor then this and stands at 48.48 in. the maximum fall being recorded in 189% when it totalled 67.68 in. The review of the year shows that rain fell on 159 days, hot a heavy fall was not recorded, the highest being recorded in ‘ March, when _ flWln fell. November saw a fall of 5.42 in, but in January and December, there wae a fall in each month ‘of considerably under an inch. THE RAINFALL. The number of days on which rain Ml in each month, together with the amount which fell was as follows:

Taken in round figures, the rainfall over the City of Wellington .(approximately 16,000 acres) therefore amounts in the year to some 46,000,000 tons. LESS SUNSHINE. Sunshine figures show a decreue an the mean hours of the previous fourteen years, for which the average has been 2027 hours 3 minutes. For the past year the. total was 1999 hours 9 minutes. Ootober showed by far the greatest total, recording 220 hours 56 minutes. .In December there were only 185 hours 56 minutes of sunshine. Hie figures for each* month were:—January, 17$ hoars 62min; February; 202 hours Mg; March, -180 home 54min; April,- 167 horns 43min; July. 119 hours whin; August, 164 hours 17min; September, 186 hours 54min; October, 229 boars 54min; November,/168 hours Smini Dioerahcr. 185 hours 56mln-

Days. Tnchm. January .88 February — 8 1.07 March &81 1.12 12 IAS Jane —■ 18 3JO July .... 12 . 1.89 August 2,30 September October ....... 11 2-52 2-.3S November ... 18 5.48 December .... .74 Total — 150 ' 29.28 1921* 42.88 1920 .... 49.28 1918 L..... 49.58