SCATTERED RAINS
17 WET DAYS IN MAY AGGREGATE FALL 2.BHN. BELOW MAY AVERAGE * Ttnin fell on 17 flays during the month just closed, the largest individual day’s recording being .12 points on May T, and the recordings on three days being just sufficient, to register one point,. The aggregate for the month was 2.81 in., which is not much more than half the average for the month, 5.38 in. Individual recordings for the month were:—May 2, .liip; May' (5, .24in.; May 7, .52in.; May’ 8, .2.0 in.; May 11, .02in.; May 12, .‘o,pin.; May 13, .38in.; May 14, .Olin.; May 22, .32in.: May 23,'.04in.; May- 25, .Olin.; Mgy 20, ,12in.; May. 27, .09i'ni; May .28, .24in.; May 29, ,03in.; May 30, .42in.; May 31, ,02in.; total, 2.81 in. May has a high average of rainy days, but the rainfall aggregates for the month in successive years are moderate, outstanding exceptions having been May, 1933, when 11.9&in. was recorded; May, 1928. 8,‘33in.: and Mnv. 1924, 13.58 in. ' ' '' ' \ Figures relating to rainfall for the first five 1 months of. the current year, and. for .those' of the two preceding years, are given in the following table:—
. . - 1034. ■ 1035. 1936. January . . 2.28 5.12 4.36 February . . 4.80 4.80 .10.86 March . . .(50 3.00 5.43 April . I'.'Ol 4.70 2.80 May . 2.38 3.30 2.81 11.16 22.06 26.32
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19029, 1 June 1936, Page 4
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