A WET JANUARY
LARGEST RAINFALL FOR MANY YEARS
RECORD ESTABLISHED AT
EDGECUAIBE
Rain fell on 15 days of January in Whakatane to total for the month 10.18 inches, 2 points less than the heaviest fall recorded, that of the year 1925. This figure establishes a decided contrast with the driest January which was in 1928, Avhen the meagre total of .10 was registered. Mr H. Museutt, the local observer. has the figures of rainfall since 1925, and slates that this year the month was exceptionally wet for the Bay of Plenty.
At Edgecumbe the rainfall recorded constituted a record for January, Mr A. McLean, the observer, stating that the fall was greater for the initial month of the year than any recorded byt him for the past six years.
The total for the month in that district reached 11.29 inches, rain falling on 13 days and the largest recording being 1.(>6 inches on Jan-
uary 11
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 266, 3 February 1941, Page 5
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156A WET JANUARY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 266, 3 February 1941, Page 5
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