WEATHER REPORTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 27

WEATHER REPORTS.

CHRISTCHURCH, July 1. June will be remembered as a dry month. Rain fell on only 10 days during the month, and at that It was only very light, the heaviest fall amounting to .340 in. This was on June 17. The total rainfall was .903 in. This is 64 per cent, below normal for June, excepting June, 1917. It was the driest June between the period 1902-26. Of the 30 days in June there were frosts on 26. The severest frost was recorded at 14.7 degrees. The mean temperature for the month was one degree below the June average. Cold as the month was, it provided many beautiful calm and clear mornings and Bunny days. OPHIR. The report of the Ophir meteorological station for the month of June is as follows: The month came In and went out under very cloudy conditions, but otherwise the days were clear and fine —five afternoons being quite spring-like. The average maximum dry-bulb temperature was 44.84eg (May 48.0 deg), the average minimum 27!7deg, and the mean for the month 36.2 deg (May 39.2). The extreme shade maximum recorded was 57.7 deg on the afternoon of the 19th, and the extreme minimum 18.5 deg on the early morning of the 6th. The highest temperature in the sun was 87.0 deg on the afternoon of the 19th. The corresponding wet-bulb readings were: Average maximum, 36.5 deg; average minimum, 25.1 deg; mean, 30.8 deg. The ground temperature fell below freeling every night throughout the month—the lowest being 6.sdeg (25|deg of frost) on the morning of the 6th, and the highest 28.3 on the 28th. Other coldest morning were the Bth (12.0 deg) and the 9th (12.5 deg). The average clearness of sky at 9 a.m. was 56 per cent. Fairly dense fog prevailed day and night for the first three days and for 20 hours on the 28-29th. The month waa free from winds. Twenty days and nights were quite calm, and on the other ten days only light winds blew — the highest having a four-miles-per-hour velocity. No .now fell, except two .light fella about SOOOft on the range,. The rainfall waa 56 point, (1625, 49 point,, and 1924, 59 point,), which fall on nine day,—the greateat being 23 point, on the 26th. AT WAIKOUAITI. The rainfall raoordad at fflidkouattt In Juno amounted to lit point*. The total fall for the alx month* ended June 30 haa boon 18.02 Inch**, aa compared with 9.23 iaaboo during the drat half of 1925.

The rainfall at Trotter’s Creek, Hlllgrove, for the month of June was 2,19 in, the most of It falling during the last week. The heaviest fall was 96 points on the last day of the month.