THE WEATHER
HEAVY RAIN IN HAWKE'S BAY. RIVERS IN FLOOD. NAPIER, January 3. Following exceptionally heavy and almost continuous rain, which has fallen since Monday nisrht, the rivers are in flood, and unless the bad weather soon abates serious damage is threatened. Fortunately the mouths of the rivers were free from bars, but on account of the unprecedented amount of water running the rivers are unable to copo with the heavy volume. With tho crops still ungarnercd, the devastating result of an inundation can bo easily imagined. Hastings reports that the rivers are rising rapidly. If the rain continues much longer all the low-lying country will certainly be flooded. In some parts of the country a good deal of hay is still Ol)t ; and there seems little prospect of saving it. Tho following is the rainfall recorded by Mr Jacobsen at the pumping station, Musselburgh, for 1916:—January. ,960 in; F<l>ruray, 1.480 in; March. 2.580 in ; April, 1.120 in; May. 1.5 p 0 ; n; June, 4.790 in : July, 1.370 in ; August. 3.350 in : l.OOOin ; October, 1.140 in; November. 2.7C0 ; n; December, .910in;—total. 22.980 in. The following are the yearly records from 1905: 1905 29640 in; 1906. 20.175 in; 1907. 1908' 2n7Qoin: 1909.23.930 in; 1910.18 ?Po : n ; 1911' 27?.00in: 1912. ?3.160in : 1913 38 fiPOin; 1914', 24.645; 1915, 24.110; 1916, 22.980 in. (Fkom Oun Own ORARI, January 2. The rainfall registered here for December was .725 in. Rain fell on six days, the maximum fall being .41in, on_the 31st. The highest reading of the maximum thermometer was 92dcg on the 10th. and the lowest was 50deg, on the 18th. The total rainfall for the year was 28.07 in, compared with 16 17in in 1915, 23.5 : n in 1914, 29.07 in in 1913, and 31.2 in in 1912.
WOODLANDS, January 1. The rainfall registered hero for the 24 hours ended 7 a.m. was 16 points, and for December 1 16 points. For the past year 37.59 in were registered. It was the driest year for the last six years. Crops are beginning to suffer for the want of ram in this district.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3278, 10 January 1917, Page 10
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