RAINFALL RECORDS
AT GISBORNE. A comparison of the rainfall records for the past three veal's, as supplied by Mr C. P. Duvies, demonstrates thai the past venr of 1921 was the driest period. In 1919. rain fell upon 108 days, the total fall being 30.43 inches, fhe full in 1920 was greater by about (en per coin., but, iii 1921, though rain fell on 133 days, the. total fall was only 28.59 inches.
TK KARAKA. The total rainfall for the month of December, 1921. was 8b points, falling on 13 days, the heaviest fall heing 46 points on December 2. The total fall for 1921 was "24.87 inches, this,.being the lowest since: the first complete record Mas kept in 1914. There were 142 days upon which rain tell during the year. The past llirce years' records, indicate exceptionally dry weather, while for the three years before that, there was a run of unusuullv wet weather. The figures since 1916 were as follows:—1916, 52.15; 1917, 52.65; 1918. £0.12; 1919 26.37: 1920, 31.30; 1921, 24.87. THE WEATHER AT MORERE.
During 1921 a. total of 45.86 inches ot rain fell at, Morere, the number of wui days for the year being 128. Tin. individual records for each month heing as follows: —January, 1.93 inches fell on 10 days; February, 4.27 inches on 9 days; AJarch, .62 inch on 4 days; April, Z.Zii inches on 12 days; May, s.B4*inches on 16 days: June, 1.0.6 inches \>n 16 days; July, 5.54 inches on 12 days; August, 4.86 inches on 16 days ; September, 1.62 inches on 5 days; October, 5.59 inches on 13 days; November, 1.24 inches on 6 days; December, 1.38 inches on 9 days. The: totals for the previous seven years were: 1914, 66.61 inches on 136 davs; 1915. 62.05 inches on 136 davs; 1916, 88.38 inches on 168 days; 1917. 103.82 inches on 166 days; 1918, 64.97 inches on 160 davs ; 1919, 58.61 inches on 104 davs : 192 C, 47.61 inches on 137 days. the heaviest individual day's rain recorded was 12.55 inches, which fell mi June 11th, 1917, which month holds the record for any month with 23.6 inches on 13 days. Tin; past spring has been the driest since 1914, when the total for the four months,*Augjist>, September; October and November, was 8.65 inches on 36 days, while for the same period in the year just past was 13.3 inches, and for the same, four months of other years a,s follows: 1915, 26.85 inches on 53 davs; 1916. 27.63 inches, on 56 davs; 1917, 31.23 inches on 53 days; 1918. 19.14 inches on 47 davs'; 1919, 23.93 inches' on 34 days: and 1920, 19.07 inches on 51 days-. The, driest, month so far recorded was, January. 1914,when only .35 inch fell on 4 days, but November, 1920, and March, 1921, were close tup with .6 inch on 8 days and .62 on. 4 days respectively. Only four months during the past eight vears have, had twenty wet davs or over, these, being Mav, 19i4, 19.22'inches on 22 davs; Mav, 1916, 22.69 inches on 23 dav*: July, 1916, 11.02 inches on 20davs; and March, 1918, 10.91 inches on *22 days. 'The heaviest, shower recorded \rna the 51 points, or .slightly over half an inch, which fell in twenty minutes on the afternoon of April 19th, 1921.
Tim figures aiL' compared btlow :— 1919 1920 1921 1 tis. Ins, Jus. JtillUiU'V • 2.29 ... 1.79 ... 1.92 February . 1.81 ... 1.80 ... 2.08 March . .79 ... 2.79 ... .46 April . .74 ... 4.09 ... 1.37 May . 3.64 ... 2.01 1.90 June . 1.88 ... 6.70 ... 5.48 July . 5.56 ... 1.90 ... 3.41 August, . 6.4a ... 4.61 ... 4.16 September . 2.97 ... 4.82.^., . 1.43 October . 2.49 ... L.43 -<■... ' 4.48 November . 1.33 ... .64 ... .98 December . 1.51 ... 1.39 ... .92 30.43 ... 33.97 . 28.59
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15714, 4 January 1922, Page 9
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