HEAVY RAIN IN ENGLAND
WEEK-END THUNDERSTORMS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 12. (Received March 13, at 5.5 p.m.) Heavy rain during the week-end and forecasts indicating a continuance of the unsettled weather, with snow and eleet in the north and further rain in the south of England, have somewhat lessened anxiety regarding water supplies. Thunderstorms occurred in many parts on Saturday and Sunday. A summer drought in Britain often ends in thunderstorms, but it is unusual for a. long spell of drought in January and February to be followed by thunderstorms in March.
THE AVERAGE RAINFALL. (British Official Wireless,! RUGBY, March 12. (Received March 13, a 5.5 p.m.) Statistics complied by the meteorological section of the Air Ministry show that the rainfall over England and Wales has been less than the average for no less than nine out of the last 11 months. In December the rainfall was only 29 per cent, of the average, and in February only 22 per cent, of the average for those months.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22211, 14 March 1934, Page 7
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