THE WEATHER

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4522, 12 January 1942, Page 4

THE WEATHER

THE extraordinary spell of wet, windy weather experienced in Te Awamutu during the recent holiday period established a record in that it was “ the worst ” within the memory of the oldest residents. It is a record which no one will wish to see broken. We can derive consolation from the fact, however, that there were many places where the rainfall was much heavier—the total of 46.82 inches recorded at Milford Sound in November alone must have thoroughly saturated whatever subsoil there is in that neighbourhood. A single day’s fall of rain amounted to 9.22 inches. There must, of course, be rain, but no obvious reason why there should be so much of it at week-ends and on holidays. Fortunately, the alleged shortness of the public memory applies to the weather. Not one half of the people who can recall the conditions that ruled over the holiday period in 1940 could state definitely where they were in 1939. The majority are far more interested in where they will be over coming week-ends than in meteorological records.