OCTOBER WEATHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19449, 7 November 1925, Page 7

OCTOBER WEATHER

GOVERNMENT METEOROLOGIST’S REPORT. AN INTERESTING REVIEW. [Per Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, Nov. G. The Director of the Meteorological Office reports: Conditions during the first week of the month were in keeping with the weather experienced during winter and the first month of spring, but, on the whole, October, which is regarded as the secund month of the spring season, was a great improvement, and favourable to growth and progress in agricultural and pastoral pursuits. Westerly winds predominated, and five westerly disturbances were experienced, only one of which, however, was of much intensity. This storm passed in the south between the 13th and 15th, causing heavy winds and considerable tain, especially .in the south. Anti-cyclonic conditions prevailed ovcj the whole of the Dominion during the last week of the month, with fine sunny days and cold frosty nights, particularly about the 28th and 29th, when much, tender growth was bitten by frost in severa' parts of the country.

Rainfall was below the average in most parts of the country, the exceptions being in the Nelson and Central O’.ago provinces, which experienced from 20 to 90 per cent, above the average rainfalls, and most other parts of the country were below the average for October to the same extent.