METEOROLOGICAL.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15310, 25 February 1920, Page 4 (Supplement)

METEOROLOGICAL.

Archdeacon Kempthorne forwards the following abstract for the month of January, 1920, of meteorological obseivations" taken at Brightwater:—

Barometer: Mean for month, 30.32 in; maximum for month (on the 7th), 30.71 i n; minimum for month (on the 24th), 29.60 in; extreme range (the difference between the maximum and minimum), l.llin.

Temperature in shade: Mean maximum temperature, 69.22deg.. TTah.; . mean minimum temperature, 52.84; approximate mean temperature.for the , month. 61.03 ; mean daily range of tern! perature, 16.38; extreme maximum i temperature (on the 9th), 79.00; ex- ! treme minimum temperature (on the j 14th), 41.00; extreme range of tern perature for month (difference Between | the extreme maximum and the extreme i minimum),-38.00. j Cloud: Mean amount for month (0, ; clear sky; 10, overcast) : 5.58. I Rain: Total rainfall, 6.89 in; number •of days on which rain fell, 12; maximum rainfall in any 24 hours (on the 24th), ,1.95 in. " "

] Mr. G. S. Huff am, meteorological obij server at Motueka, supplies us with the I following particulars of the rainfall at '.Motueka for the month of January:— ; 4th, t).o6in; sth, O.Olin; 6th, 0.03 in • ' lOt-h, 0/)3in; 13th, 0.02 i n; 14th O.Olin • 15fch, 0.06 in; 17th, O.OSin; 18th, 0.76 in: 19th, 1.72 in; 20th, 0.25 in; 21st, 0.04 in: '•?2nd, O.lOin; 23rd, 1.69 in-, 24th 2.81 in 31st, 0.02 in. Total, 7.51 in. Maxima, fall, 2.81 in on tho 24th. Days with rain, 15.