SEPTEMBER WEATHER.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 12 October 1926, Page 13

SEPTEMBER WEATHER.

RAINFALL RECORDS.

Fairview: T|ie fatal fall Whs aad for tho corresponding month last •yens' it was 2.10 id. Tho ftveFHga jail ip (Joptsmbsz fur the past iid years has hi,-on , „ , . Mr D. N. Harper, Park Curato, The total fur the month was Lo2iri, Rair, 'foil on nine clays, tho heaviest being 37 paints on September 40. Mr J allies Bishop, Pleasant I oint. Rain fell on seven days during the month, tho heaviest tall being 49 points on the-30th. The total for the mo nMi . was- 4)3' points. Dry, windy weather prevailed during the greater part of the month, with an pi most total absence of growth; (lonsennently sheep food was scarce, and tho showers on tho jast day the month woro specially wolar.aio. ' Air E. Gillingham, Gave • Tho ripm fall at- Cuvo fur (SapLemhqv totalled Bio pr.lnk;. Rain fall on plant days, and the heaviest fall was (12 pmnt.a on ilia |4() Hi. For fim corresponding; maai’i last ysar 400 paints were Twenty man. Lower Seadown : Tjsjn foil on fils days, the heavies !t fall being' US paints (»n fieplcmiiar ;10. tlio. total for tho mouth wan Off points, Mr P. j». To Hint. Claremont { Tho fall foi:' tho month pt Claremont i-oialleil Lid paints, •«! cum pa rad with fio3 points in Baptemhor, jP2S, -Air j. AfeOrmf. Limestono Valley, Aibury: Rain fall on seven days, the honviost fall haing on September lid, when 70 points were regarded, The total for the month was I.Sin, enni= pared with 5.5 in. in September last year, ' Air B, R, Alnpdonald, "AVsltni," Geraldine ( The rftinfajt for sqptemboi> was 1.4(1 iiiohse, The highest fall was ,65 inches on September 30th, The rain full for September, ip2S, waa 4,67 inches), Tho total rainfall title year to September was 22,5in tl and for the eomvipumling period in 1096 it was 30.0Hn. Mr A. J. Blakiston, Ornri Gorge i Rain foil on eleven days in September, tho total fall being 2.90 in. The maximum ono-dny fall was l.lriin., on Son(;ember 30. In September, 1026, tho fall was 7.49 in. Air R. T. Searles, Lovols: Rain fell on ton days Inst, month, tho hoaviest fall being 28 points on September 30. Tho total for the month was 93 points. Air M. G. . Williams, Geraldine Downs, reports that tho rainfall for September was 132 points. Rain fell on 7 days, tho maximum fall boing .66 on tho 30th. Last year 440 points wore registered for September. In 1926. for the four winter months, Juno, July, '.ugust, and September, seventeen inches of rain were registered, as against four inches and ninety-seven points for the corresponding period this year.