Blazing Summer Heat Menaces Fruit Crops In Alexandra District
Exceptionally hot weather was experienced in Central Otago yesterday, the shade temperature at Alexandra being 95 degrees during the greater part of the day. It was undoubtedly the hottest day of the summer and no similar reading has been recorded in many years. Indeed, it is believed that the figure is the highest since 1921.
Ripening fruit was affected to a marked degree by the weather and growers endeavoured desperately to meet the situation by picking and packing as much as possible in the time at their disposal. In many cases, however, they were unable to cope with the quantities ready for the market and some losses are inevitable.
Fruit in irrigated areas was not affected so much as that where water is not available and in the latter case, it was reported that the fruit was literally cooking on the trees. Numerous holiday visitors regarded the weather as perfect or unbearable, according to individual preferences, and some from the far north of New Zealand expressed the opinion that the day was the hottest they had ever experienced.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26659, 3 January 1948, Page 4
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