LOWEST FOR 35 YEARS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17952, 2 December 1932, Page 4

LOWEST FOR 35 YEARS

NOVEMBER RAINFALL . ONLY 51 POINTS RECORDED November is often a dry month in Gisborne, but only on one previous occasion since records have been taken over the past 54 years has less .rain fallen in November than the total recorded for last month. The Gisborne gauge measured only 51 points for the month on six days. There were also six wet days in November, 1897, when only 47 points of rain fell, and this record still stands as the lowest for the month. The average November rainfall is 2.99 in. The rainfall for the year to date is well ahead of that for the corresponding period of the preceding two years, which, however, were very dry ones, hut unless there' is a phenomenally wet December this years gauging will be below the nvorage. The average for the year is 45.54in._, and only 40.48 in. has fallen to date. If the average for the year is not exceeded it will be the fourth year in succession that the rainfall has bailed to come up to this standard. The rainfall for the first 11 months of the year, together with comparisons with the previous two vears, is given below

Ra.in was gauged on the following days during the month: November 5, 5 points; November<9. j. point; November 13, 5 points; November 27, 34 points; November 28. 2 points; November 30. 4 points. The Te Ivaraka rainfall for the month was substantially more than at Gisborne, and l.oOin. was recorded on- eight days, on four of which there was a fall of approximately a quarter of an inch. Iho total was well below the average for the month, 2.18 in.

1930 1931 1932 Ins. Ins. Ins. January ... 3.11. .96 1.31 February ... 5.83 ■ .23 12.61 March ... .38 4.38 5.48 April ... 1.32 1.12 5.07 May ... 1.10 2.95 2.21 June ... 2.38 3.99 1.09 July ... 4.07 5.25. 4.19 A n crust ... 6.08 1.12 3.04 September ... 3.59 3.93 3.66 October ... 1.22 .27 1.31 November ... 1.21 69 51 32.34 24.96 40.48