WEATHER IN MAY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18403, 9 June 1925, Page 9

WEATHER IN MAY.

CYCLONIC DISTURBANCES, <«i»8 JusoqunoH tiliomum.) WELLINGTON, June 8. •*," Mr D. C. Bates, Director of the ' Meteorological Office, reports* that the weather during tbo month of 'May was % for the number of cyclppio ,' disturbances which passed to the noirth- ?! ward of J\iew Zealand, also for the ab- £ •••fnce of westerly low pressure- aroas. ">itie rainfall was greatly in excess of toe average, particularly in.the North $,, Mand and notth-east uistricts of the B oQHth Island, but deficient in Christ%vchmch city and on the West Coast 's%i4Qd southern districts. j 'k. i 'A'he nlpnth opened with stormy wea- #» * tl,er > and on ilie 6th a disturbance $r Jcntred about the Chatham Islands inff teasified, and caused severe eouthfcrly leading 29.46 inches at the Chatl*lffTP of an inch higher in most parip of ji tW Dominion. Anti-cycloniq condi£t JWM followed, but on tha 10th a X.''*?tS m mado *** appearance northward |§&jf ™W Zealand, causing heavy rain in gf.v*W north, i'urther heavy rain was reported ajbout the 14th and 16th, eslYkfftCially m the King Country and pl ir s h ™ iern districts, and * severe thunwas experienced in Auckland - On the 22nd and storm conditions, especially NiMJthenorth. Floods occurred in TarassP*)n and the King Coifntry, and other l* JWts of Auckland province also experilp; seq<wl and heavy rains. Antiyc Orphic conditions, with fair weather, & *FW®*l from the 24th to/28th, but er cyclone then mado its appear- ** »n the north, and the month " J ' s *i ß6 k m^l Bea ti€r which will be refor a long time by northern Inhabitants.