RAINFALL RECORDS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 13 August 1926, Page 13

RAINFALL RECORDS.

| JULY AYEATIIER. | The following are tlie rainfall records recorded throughout South. Canter- [ bury for July. I .ill- 1), N. Harper, Curator, Timaru (Park: The rainfall at the Park duri iim .July won 1.15 inches. Air R. T. iSearles, Levels: ’Rain fell on six (lays last nioni.it, i-ne m-avu-st fall being GO points cm July 12. The total tor the mouth was 1.27 inches. Mr 11. |{. .Macdonald,. “AYaitu'i.” Geraldine: Rain 101 l ou six days, the heaviest fall being G-! points on Jtny 13. The total fall lor the month was 1.31 inches. Ihe ’-amlaii to rule smc-i: ! January 1, -was 19.3 L inches, and for j tiic same period hist veur 21.-15 inches. ( Air G. C. Ellis, Kiugsdowu : The rainfall for July was 91 points. Rain , leh on me days, the maximum i.-di 45 points being recorded on July 13. For the corresponding month last year the full was 3.93 inches. Air J L. White. Winchester': Dur-

mg the meni.li of jitlv ruin war, recorded at AA’incliesler on five days, the total rainlnll being Ib-U points. i.la> heaviest day’s rain was on .iulv 12 when 9u points fell. The total fall for the year to date was 15,18 inehe-s. Frost was recorded on 22 days, the minimum reading being If degrees on July 31. Mr Janies Bishop. P’er-sant Po-nt-Rain fel 1 on six days during the month, tin: heaviest lull being, b, points on July 13. The we-ather has been exceptionally mild and fine. There have been no severe, frosts, and the land is in good order far working, and farmers are pushing ahead with their spring I sowing.

-T 1 -J Blakiston, Orari Gorge: Jhe rainfall at Orari Gorge for July v.-as 1.48 inches. There were six days with rain, the maximum fall Wing 71. points on Ju'y 12. Tim total rainfall for July 1925, was 12.55 inches, with 15 days of rain, the heaviest fall being 3.25 inches on Julv 15. Mr W. P. Stericker, “Sutton Farm,” ra.rriev,- : The rainfall for July was 1.43 inches and for tho corresponding month last year 5.55 inches. Tho average fall for July over a period of 36 years was 2.38 inches, a total for the 7 months ending July 31 1926, of !3.8 ! inches, and tho average for tho 7 months 1.504 inches.

_ Air M. G. AVi.'liams Geraldine DownsIhn .rainfall for Julv was 1.46 inches Ram fell on 5 days, the lickvest heiim--98 points on July 13. For the corresponding month last year, tiio rainfall was 706 inches. Although- the month nas a dry on, several severe-frosts were recorded, tho mercury registering below freezing point on nine nights. A”' Y J- Twenty in mi. Sc/'dawn : Tho ram,all for July was 1.49 inches, tlm heaviest ftp) being 85 points on July