A WET MONTH

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXV, Issue 3276, 2 March 1935, Page 4

A WET MONTH

FEBRUARY RAINFALL COOLER TEMPER ATURE£ With rain on sixteen clays amounting to almost .8 inches, February, tliis year was abnormally wet. Several of the falls were particularly heavy. The greatest downpour was l.vOin. on the 9th and this marked the end oi' a dryspell which was becoming very serious) for farmers. For the month 7.85 in of rain were recorded at the Cambridge meteorological station. There were several hot days early in the month, but after the rain the tempratures dropped considerably. On the 2nd. the reading was 91.5 degrees the only day on which tiie nineties were reached. The coldest morning was on Sunday, February 24, when the thermometer dropped to 40.5 degrees. HAMILTON RAINFALL Rain, fell at Hamilton on 11 days, the aggregate being 4.77 in, compared with the average fall for the month of 3.10'm. The heaviest fall was on February 22, when 2.26 in was recorded. The rainfall to date this year is 5.57 in FIGURES Recordings taken at Pukeroro by Mr .T. Christie show that the rainfall for the month of February was 5.71 in. Rain fell on 13 days, the heaviest being 1.79 in on the 22nd. For the first two months of 19.°..") there have boon 6.7oindies of rain. In February, 1934, the total was 5.02in, and in the same month of 1933. S.OOin. The average February rainfall during the past eight years has been 3.44 in.