MASTERTON WEATHER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1940, Page 7

MASTERTON WEATHER

! SUMMARY FOR JULY. f — . Miss A. M. Brown. Masterton wea--5 tlicr recorder, supplies the following - summary for July (figures for July • last year given in parentheses): — r J Pressure at 9 a.m. -standard time, highest 30.64 inches q: 24th (30.2); lowest 29.9 on 13th (29'96). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum, 62 degr.ees on 29th (60.6); absoulte shade minimum. 24.5 degrees on 24th (24.1)., Thus the range was 37.5 mum, 62 degres on 29th (60.6); absolute shade minimum, 24.5 degrees on 24th (24.1). Thus the range was 37.5 3 (36.5). Mean temperature for the y month. 43.7 (41.21). Absolute grass . minimum, 15.4 on 24th (16.7); average s grass minimum, 26.7 (27.7); average at one foot underground. 42.3 (43.5). Sevs erest frost 15 on night, of 23rd (13.7). . Days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 des grees fahr. or lower), 21 (18); of shade temperature below 32 degrees F., 12 s (11); of gale, 1 (8). Total rainfall, 3.31 : inches on 18 days (7.77); greatest fall. « 80 points on sth (130). Total sunshine, li 135.8 hours (110.7); daily average 4.4: s sunniest day. 29th. 9.2 hours <8.6): - wind run, 1678 miles (3067); average. 54.1.