WEATHER RECORDS: APRIL, 1925.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXX, Issue 5, 20 May 1925, Page 354

WEATHER RECORDS: APRIL, 1925.

Dominion Meteorological Office

GENERAL SUMMARY

The weather during April was, on the whole, fine, dry, and sunny, with rainfall generally below. the average. In parts of Canterbury, however, the total falls, were very much higher example, the 6-25 in. recorded at Christchurch is ever three times the mean for the month. This result was owing chiefly to the passage between the 15th and 19th and the subsequent extension of a cyclonic storm off the east coast. The same remarkable tendency to intensify, after passing over the country, was evidenced about ten days earlier, so that in a brief period Canterbury experienced an unusual succession of stormy southerly weather. The east coast of the North Island mostly escaped, and the total month’s fall at Napier was only 0-18 in. for three days, with bright sunshine amounting to 229 hours, and no sunless days. ’

-D. C. Bates,

Director

. Station.. Total Fall. Number of Wet Days. Maximum Fall ■ Average April Rainfall. North Island. ■ ' ' ' Inches. Inches. Inches. Kaitaia . .■ 1-96 II 0’54 3'55 Russell ... 3'4 6 12 .1-63 3’39 Whangarei . . .. ■ . . . . . 2-21 15 ' 0-53 4’95 Auckland . . ... 1-28 . 13 0-27 . ■ 3-34 Hamilton .... . . . . . I-O4 12 0:22 3-64 Kawhia .l-a... . . . I-9O II O-3 8 4’75 New Plymouth .. .... I-83 II 0-90 4’57 Riversdale, Inglewood . . .. 3'45 13 . 0-72 8-39 Whangamomona 376 II 0-84 ■ 6-68 Tairua, Thames . . 2-04 II 0-48 5-88 Tauranga . i-68 15 0-80 4’47 Maraehako Station, Opotiki ..... 2-16 11 0-42 5-22 Gisborne i-oi 9 0-39 4-26 Taupo .. . . .. — — — —- 6 o-68 3’95 Napier . . 0-18 3 0-13 2-1/ Maraekakaho Station, Hastings -. . 0-21' 5 0-13 3-14 Taihape o-93 10 ' 0-32 3'37 Masterton . . . ■ . . . . . i-6o 9 o-54 3-18 Patea 1-48 11 o-47 ■ 3-95 Wanganui ... . . . . ; . . o-6o 3 °-45 3-59-Foxton : . . . . . . . 2-02 9 : 0-50 - 2-57 Wellington ... 2-62 . 10 0-83 3’86 South Island. 0 Westport . . ... 4-27 16 I-IO 6-50 Greymouth . . . . . . 5’28 13 0-98 8-83 Hokitika ■ 7.72 14 2-92 9 , 3 I Arthur’s .Pass • . . 11-21 6 3-87 17-64 Okuru, Westland . . . . 16-08 11 2-50 13-67 Collingwood .. . .- 8-07 Nelson . . ... 1-90 7 o-74 2-93 Spring Creek,' Blenheim 0-78 7 ’ • 0-40 1-91 Tophouse . . 3-oo . •. 8 - i-45 4-°3-Hanmer .Springs . . 2-68 7 i-55 3’27 Highfield, Waiau 2'6i 6 191 . 2-85 Gore Bay 2-70 7 0-65 2-02 Christchurch . . . . ... 6-25 9 4-71 . 1-91 Timaru ' . . . . 2-10 ' 7 o-94 I.-49 Lambrook Station, Fairlie 2-00

. Station. | Total Fall. umber of Wet Days. Maximum . . Fall. Average April Rainfall. South Island- —continued. Inches. Inches. Inches. Benmore Station, Omarama 0-89 8 0-62 2-52 Oamaru . . . . . . 1-66 6 0'54 . 1-76 Queenstown . . • 2-23 ■ 9 0-85 2-92 Clyde i-l8 8 , 0-18 ' i-34 Dunedin . . 2’44 16 o-66 272 Gore . . . . . . 3’35 14 0-67 3-26 Invercargill . '. . . . 472 20 0-90 4’43

RAINFALL FOR APRIL, I925, AT REPRESENTATIVE STATIONS.