DECEMBER'S WEATHER WAS COOL AND DULL
PAEMING BEABON IiE MA1JM o BAU 11 W AiiJJ lYEEEl.N'l 4'( »N. Tui. 8. Geeeniber was dnll and cool uitli fairly frequent siiows in dirtriets ex pused to tlie soulhwesl, says a report by Ihe Meteorologieal (ttiice, Tliis being tlie tliird coiiseeiit'n e niontli wiili subnoriual truiperat ures tlie season reinainbackward. Brokeu weallier, espyeialt\ in Ihe laller pori ion, ,dela> ed sliearing cultivation and hay niaki ng. Il is re porled lliat. lainbs are lallening weli and lliat stoek generally are tliriving. The rainfall, wa- sliglilly e.xces sive in Waikuto, N'orlliern ^Taranaki, Ihe Horou henua disiriei, M arlborongu Bounds and ' aulerbury 1 laiim, nioie appreeiably exeesi-.i \ e -on tlie W eal i 'oasl of Ihe Boulh lsland, in Bouthiaud and Stewart l.dand. i'.lsewhere there were deliciencies, tliese being inoxt serious in Gisborne aud llauke's Ba;. where only about a tlnrd ot ihe a.\frage rainfall was experienced. l'arts of the east eoast of the Auckland Peninsula as well as Ihe plaius of Nelson and Marlborough rreehcd barely half then usiial tolal. There was a \ ery weL spell in Wesl l-and aud Buller I'rom Ihe 8lli to the Ibtli. The rainfall was heavy ou the M"Lh in Taranaki aud W ea tuni Wellington. Moa a teinperature: wero generatl;about t w o degrees below uorniai, but Ilawke's Buy had \aluts more elosely approaehing norinal. There v.ere sonie riharp frosls ou Ihe i'ourtli and a late frost on the d'.'tli uecurred in \\ airarapa and sMarlliorough. Exeept in ilawke's Bay tlftj duralion of sunshine was below nornial and by Ihe equi valent of an hour in inosl west ern and southern distriets. An atiti eyelone was nioving to tlie norlheasl at5 the beginnihg' of the niontli and on the flf t h a depressiou passed soutli eastward to be tollowe.d by an antievelone wliieh lirouglit tine weather generally. Northwesterly conditions followed later, c.hang'ing to southvvesterlies but ou the 14th au auticyclone covered New Zealand with fair weather. A period- with brief rain and strong winds followed and on the 2Unl soul.hwesierli'es with colder teinperatures became general. Anticyclone conditions returncd on the 28th.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 January 1947, Page 6
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