WEATHER SUMMARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20222, 7 October 1927, Page 6

WEATHER SUMMARY.

CONDITIONS DURING SEPTEMBER. (Pee United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 6. The total rainfall for the month was above the normal over the North Island, except at places in the central region and between Wanganui and Wellington. In the South Island Otago had more than the average. Blenheim also reported an excess, but elsewhere there was a deficiency. The greatest differences from the mean arc shown on the eastern coasts, Gisborne having 7G per cent, above, and Christchurch 70 per cent, below. There were no general heavy rains during the month, but there were several occasions on which heavy local falls occurred. On the sth and fitii very heavy rain was experienced in Otago, the effect of a low pressure centre passing in that region. Floods resulted in some of the rivers, and much of the low-lying country was under water at the time. On the 27th and 28th cyclone centres off East Capo brought away rain to Gisborne and the Hawke s Bay district's. The most generally unsettled period was between the 17th and 27th. Dull, misty, and showery conditions prevailed, and on the 25th some snow fell in the South Island in the rear of intense Antarctic disturbances and anticyclonic conditions. Pair weather ruled in the beginning, from the 13th to the 17th, and at the close of the . month. Although dull weather was frequent there were no severe cold periods, and from observers’ remarks the appear to have been favourable for lambing, and the month generally a good growing one.