MARCH WEATHER
A MODERATE RAINFALL Despite the showery weather of the last fortnight in March the rainfall for the month was considerably less than the average, and less than half that of March last year. Rain fell on 13 days during the month, the aggregate fall being 3.24 in. The heaviest fall on any one day was on March 21, when 99 points was registered. The wettest March on record in 50 years was in 1880, when the abnormal total,of 16.95 in. was recorded, rain falling on 20 days, while the driest month was in 1878," when only 23 points fell on four days. The average for the month is Mlin. Tht unusually dry February this year has resulted in'the fall for the first three months of the year being much below that of the corresponding period of Inst vear, and more than an inch less than that in 1927. « The figures for the first three months of the last three years are as follows:
1927 1928 1929 Ins. Tns. Ins. January ... .50 1.27 2.82 February ... 4.59 2.38 1.37 March ... 2.59 8.63 3.24 7.68 12.28 6.43
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 7
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186MARCH WEATHER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 7
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