WAIHI WEATHER REPORT

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7912, 8 October 1929, Page 3

WAIHI WEATHER REPORT

CONDITIONS DURING SEPTEMBER MONTH LOWEST RAINFALL IN 16 YEARS The local, observer, Mr M. F. Haszard, reports on weather conditions in Waihi during September month as follows: — , , ... Barometer at 8 a.m. (corrected). Mean for month. 29.814 inches; maximum for month, 30.136 inches on 12th; minimum for month, U-H o inches on 3rd; difference between highest and lowest readings. .760 111 Temperature in shade 24 hours previous to 8 a.m.: Highest temperature. 64 deg. Fah. on 2nd; lowest, 27.6 deg. Fah. on 12th; approximate mean temperature for month, oO.d deg Fah.; difference between highest and lowest readings. 36.4 deg. in screen at 8 a.m.: Average for month. 50.9 Jg- Fau Temeperature on grass- 21 9 temperature for month on 12th, 2i.0 deg P Fah.; average grass temperature at night, 34.7 deg. Fah

Wind: Total for month, miles; daily average, 71 miles; mum mileage in 24 hours. 160 miles on 14th and 30th. Rain; Total fall for month, 2. <2 inches; maximum fall in 24 hours, ,55 inches on Dth; number of days on . which rain fell, 14. Sunshine: Total for month, 172.4 ‘ hours; maximum sunshine, im* lours on 16th and 29th; daily average; 5.7 hours; sunless days, frosts, 11. REMARKS An unusually cold and dry month. The rainfall was only 2.72 inches, compared with an average of 7 inches. In only two previous yeais, 1899 and 1913, has the rainfall been below 3 inches. There were eleven frosts during the month ranging in severity from one to ten degrees. The mean temperature for the month has been some four degrees below the average. ', h k p L ,1 /