WEATHER REPORT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16303, 2 December 1918, Page 6

WEATHER REPORT.

FOR NOVEMBER. The month was the coldest and most unseasonable on record in Taranaki. Low pressure or “dead weather” con-, tinned almost throughout the month, with nights of cold humid atmosphere. With tiro exception of three days the wind blew bitterly cold from S, to S.W., with fog till 9 n.m. As will bo noted the readings of the four thermometers gives an average, moan of eight degrees below the. corresponding month of last year. Therein it is recorded that “the nights were generally sultry with days of ideal weather.” Denso fog occurred on the 2nd till 11 a.m. Snow fell on Mount Egmont on 11 days, thunder occurred on the 7th, earthquakes were noted on the 7th at 4.18 a.m. and 4.48 n.m. Cloudiness ranged from one on 10th to ten on 6th and 17th (sunless days). Following arc the records of the month ;—■ Maximum thermometer, 52dog. on Bth. 68deg. on loth. Minimum thermometer. 4odeg. 'on Ist and 2nd, SOdeg. on 14th and 17th. Maximum wot hull), 48dcg. on Bth and 9th, Sldeg. on 23rd. Minimum wet bulb, 44deg. on Ist, 2nd and 28th, 49deg. on 17th and 18th. Solar radiator (sun’s heat), 129 deg. on 27th, 1.5 Id eg. on 20th. Terrestial radiator, 43dog. on 2nd, 50deg. on 18th. ' Sunshine recorder. 18min. on 7th. 12hr. Smin. on 16th ; total 192 hr. 29min. There were two sunless days. Rain fell on 21 days. 210 points (100 to inch) on 30th, 3 points on 16th; total 5.083 in. The wind blew from S.W. 18, S. 9, W. 2, calm 1 day. Gales occurred on the 6th, 7th, Btb, 19th, 22nd. and 26th.