WEATHER IN WAIHI
CONDITIONS I»l KINO JANUARY AN UN SEASON A BI.K MONTH Weather conditions in Waihi during January are reported on as under by the official local recorder. .Mr M. K. Haszard:— Barometer: Mean pressure for month, reduced to sea level. 29.831 inches ;highest reading, 30.010 inches on the 3rd; lowest reading. 29.562 inches on Ihe 12th; range. .148 i nches. Temperatures; Mean temperature for month in screen, 04.3 deg. Fall.; highest maximum, 84.0 deg. Fall, on the 30th; lowest minimum, 41.0 deg. Fall, on the 3rd; moan earth temperature two feet down, 65.5 deg. Fall. Wind: Total run for month, 3777 miles; daily average. 121.8 miles; greatest run in 2 1 hours, 287 miles on Ihe 29t li. Rain: 'total fall for month. 2.82 inches; greatest fall in 2 1 hours, .68 inches on the 25th: number of days on which rain Cell. 15. .Sunshine: Total hours of bright sunshine. 200.6; daily average, 6.5 hours; brightest, day, 12.8 hours on the 4th; sunless days, 5. Remarks: An unseasonable month with unsettled weather. Though the rainfall was well below the average, rain fell on no fewer than 15 days; and. contrary to the experience in most (list.riels, we had no long period without rain. Growth has been abundant, and hay crops, where successfully harvested, have been lieavv.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXII, Issue 8869, 5 February 1943, Page 2
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