June Weather Was Favourable Month For Most Farmers

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 70, 17 July 1950, Page 4

June Weather Was Favourable Month For Most Farmers

June was a favourable month for farmers, and stock is reported to be in good condition, says the Weather Office in its monthly summary. After exceptionally mild conditions in May, the weather by contrast appeared to be rather unpleasant. Conditions, however, were typical of the winter season. Temperatures were slightly above average.

An unusual feature of the weather situation was the passage over the New Zealand area’ of a series of six wave depressions, each of which had its origin near the coast of Queensland. A long spell of showery south-westerly weather made conditions very unpleasant in Southland until -the final week. Rainfall was- above average in Marlborough, Southland and on the Canterbury Plains. On the Kaikoura coast and in Southland, where it. was one of the wettest Junes in the Last 40 years, it was two or three times the average. In the North Island also, rainfall exceeded the average, except in the region about and west of the Tararua Range and in the far north.

The lowest rainfall occurred in Central Otago, where several stations had about a third of the average amount. Except in parts of Canterbury, mean temperatures were above normal.

There was a deficiency of over 20 hours in the month’s sunshine over the Auckland province and along the Kaikoura coast. Most of Canterbury had an excess of 20-30 hours, but over the remainder of the country the sunshine was near average.