RAINFALL STATISTICS
WHAKATANE AND EDGECUMBE BOTH RECORD HIGH FALLS FOR AUGUST The rainfall recorded on Mr H. Muscutt's gauge, King Street, was 9.02 inches for August, against 4.20 for August last year. The registration for the year to date amounts to 30.94 inches as against 24.62 for the same period last year. The driest August was experienced in 11)23, when 2.81 inches was the total fall. The wettest August was in 1938, when 14 inches of rain fell. Registered on the gauge of MiAndrew McLean, the Edgecumbc area had an August rainfall of 9.52 inches; last year's figure for the same month being 5 inches. The total for the year to date is 39.40 against 29.68 for the corresponding period last year.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 208, 4 September 1940, Page 5
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