MASTERTON WEATHER
SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER. Miss A. M. Brown, Masterton weather' recorder, supplies the following summary for December, 1941 (figures for December last year given in parentheses): —Pressure at 9 a.m. standard time, highest inches on 11th, 30.46 (30.54); lowest, 29.44 on 26th (29.5). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum, 84.7 degrees on 14th (88.5); absolute shade minimum, 34.4 degrees on Ist (39.2). Thus the range was 50.3 (49.3). Mean temperature for the month, 60.7 (62.4). Absolute grass minimum, 24.4 on Ist (29.2); average grass minimum, 40.2 (41.8); average at one foot underground, 59.8 (63.5). Severest frost, 6.0 on the night of Ist (1.2). Days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 degrees Fahr, or lower), 3 (2); of shade temperature below 32 degrees Fahr., 0 (0); of gale, 1 (6). Total rainfall, 2.61 inches on 13 days (1.45); greatest fall, 38 points on 16th (78). Total sunshine, 221.6 hours (244.9); daily average, 7.1; sunniest day, 13th, 13.5 hours (14.6); wind run, 2563 miles (2511); average, 82.3.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1942, Page 8
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