COLD MONTH OF JULY'

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1930, Page 7

COLD MONTH OF JULY'

PREVALENCE OF SOUTHERLIES, . • Owing to tho "frequency-of southerly .: winds 'the'month -of July ; was the coldest'iii Taranaki -for many years. From July 21 to July 31 New Plymouth had a ine'ah -temperature ,'of 45.7 : . .degrees. Rainfall -.was below the ' average \and /' bright sunshine just dir the average. The cold w/nds reduced-the; milk supply.'..; . The rainfall for tlie . month was six inches. The. heaviest., falls were 1.94 inches on the 18th ahdl.OS inches on the . ,sth. Half the rainfall for' the month fell on these, two days." There .were 1.8 days.on. which rain fell. ‘ The mean July - . rainfall for 50 years, is 6.29.. inches, but., this has been .exceeded: jn all .the. years y since- 1924. The’. rainfall in June and July. this year, has been 9.42. inches, com- . pared .with 19.39 inches last-year.. 'The ■. rainfall this year has been 28.49 -inches, y as against ,36.93 inches last year. Temperature records are as Mean temperature 47.8 deg. (average for July 50.5 deg.). The mean minimum-on the grass .was 30.8 deg., which was higher than "last .month; The lowest-tempera-ture was 26deg. ■' There were only four frosts at the recording station in Courtenay Street. . • . The bright sunshine recorded was • •hours,- which was ■about the average. , . The wind was strong throughout th® month and- most frequently from the., south, and south-east. It, reached gal® . I force on July 10 and July 27. : .