SEPTEMBER WEATHER

Southland Times, Issue 24565, 14 October 1941, Page 3

SEPTEMBER WEATHER

DAMAGE BY LATE FROSTS The Dominion Meteorologist reports as follows on the weather in SeptemOver most of New Zealand September was sunny and rather dry. Late frosts have been numerous, causing damage to early vegetable and iiuit crops, besides retarding pasture growth which, however, gradually became more vigorous. Cereal crops are showing good progress. Towards the end ot the month conditions were much more favourable for outdoor activity and caused little delay to the belated spring sowinges. On the whole lambing percentages appear to have been satisfactory, the areas where new lambs succumbed to the effects of wet and cold being fairly localized. Drier weather proved much more beneficial to stock. While Taranaki and south-west Wellington, together with parts of Nelson and Marlborough, received somewhat more rain than usual, the rainfall was deficicent in most other districts, lhe falls were particularly light m Hawkes Bay, where totals were frequently only 20 to 40 per cent, of the average. Rainfall was rather less than hair the normal in the Gisborne and Bay ot Plenty areas, in the extreme north, and also in Central Otago. _ .There was greater thunderstorm activity than tor several months past. , There was more than the normal duration of bright sunshine. Stationse with an equivalent of an additional hour a day included Auckland ana most stations between Napier and Timaru.