SEASON TOO MILD

Southland Times, Issue 19290, 8 July 1924, Page 5

SEASON TOO MILD

OFFICIAL WEATHER REPORT. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 7. The Dominion Meteorologist supplies the following weather summary for the month of June: The first half of the year, which June completed, will be remembered as a period of heavy rain. The rainfalls in June were also much above the average in the high levels of the South, but below normal in some of the East Coast districts of both islands. Other parts of the country varied little from the average of the same month in previous years. There were several fails of snow on the ranges, but these quickly thawedi and the season has so far on the whole peen rather mild, though frosts were frequent in East Coast districts of the South Island. An observer in Southland ventures to remark that the season has been far too mild, and that unless it becomes much rougher in July and August, the spring and autumn are not likely to be good. There were four distinct westerly disturbances during the month, which culminated on the Bth and 12th, and two which passed in the south on the 18th and 24th. The weather between the 17th and the 27th was very unsettled, with heavy showers in most parts of the country. An ex-tropical cyclone passed in the North and East Coast districts on the 14th and 15th, causing easterly gales and tremendous seas on the East Coast, especially about Gisborne and Napier. As is usual in the winte. months, storms alternated with periods of calm, but on the whole in the winter, the total velocity of the winds is usually less tSan in tha —rrnmer,