A WET AUGUST

Waikato Independent, Volume XXVII, Issue 2830, 1 September 1927, Page 4

A WET AUGUST

INTERESTING FIGURES. EIGHT MONTHS’ RETURNS. August is always rather a wet month, but the month just passed has been an exceptionally wet one. The rainfall in Cambridge totalled 5.63 m, compared with 6.67 in for August of last year, 2.54 in in 1925, 3.40 in m 1924, and 1.98 in in 1923. Rain fell on 20 days last month, the heaviest fall being .86i:n yesterday. It is interesting to°note that for the first eight months of this year we have had a total of 35.82 in of rain, which fell on 108 days, compared with 35.7 in for the same period of last year, with 88 wet days. Thus almost exactly the same amount of rain has fallen for the first eight months of this year as last, though we have had 20 more -wet days this year. The average rainfall for August, for the past fifteen years, has been 3.88 in. .HAUTAPU FIGURES. At Hautapu rain fell on 23 days duiing the month, with a total of 6.32 in, the maximum fall being exactly one inch, registered for yesterday. The rainfall in August of each year

ROTO-O-RANGI. At Roto-o-rangi rain fell on 19 days last month, the maximum fall being .90in for yesterday, and the total for the month being 7.26, considerably more than in Cambridge or Hautapu. At Roto-o-rangi there have been 113 wet days this year, with a rainfall of 35.95 in, compared with 107 wet days and 34.64 in of rain, for the same period of last year. AUCKLAND. Auckland city has had more rain than this district of late. For August Auckland had 6.38 in up to 9 a.m. yesterday, with 26 wet days, while for the first eight months of the year the record. has totalled 40.47 in.

since 1912 . has been: —1912, 2.30in; 1913, 4.62in; 1914, 1.93in; 1915, 2.68in; 1916, 6.93in; 1917, 5.00in; 1918, 4.59m; 1919, 2.85in; 1920, 3.65in; 1921, 3.45m; 1922, 4.12in; 1923, 2.48in; 1924, 3.81in; 1925, 3.50in; 1926, 6.66in.