A RECORD FROST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4, 31 July 1918, Page 7

A RECORD FROST.

j The New Zealand Times reports: I On Friday night 14 degrees of frost I were registered in Wellington. Another heavy frost was also recorded in Auckland. Bealey reported a temperature of 12, which gives 20 degrees of frost in the shade. Mr D. C. Bates, the Dominion Meteorologist, believes that Friday night was ' the coldest that has ever boen exI perlencptl in Wellington. Frosts, he explained are not always to be moasI ural by the amount of rime upon the grass. That is accounted for by freezing dew and passing clouds, and he has known one part of the night to be cloudy and wet, and the other part clear, with a very hard frost. A i black frost is one when there is no formation of hoar frost, and is often lower than the hoar frost. Ft is 1 sometimes called a " killing frost," referring to its effect on vegetation. ; There was a severe frost, of 13 de- ' grces, on July sth last, and a similar ; reading was given ten years ago, on | August Ist. On Friday night the .reading was actually 17.7, which i shows 14.3 degrees of frost.