LAST YEAR’S WEATHER

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 85, 4 January 1935, Page 13

LAST YEAR’S WEATHER

Meteorological Summary TWO REMARKABLE MONTHS That last year’s weather was remarkable only for the two fine months which Concluded it is shown by the summary; ol meteorological records for 1934, publish ed yesterday by the weather bureau ai Kel'burn. The year’s highest temperature was re corded on Christmas Day last, when tin thermometer reached 83)6deg. >in th' shade, nearly as high a temperature a ever recorded in Wellington. The lowes minimum temperature in the screen wa: one of 31.9 deg. on August 11. Dunnf the year 22 frosts were recorded, the hardest ‘being one of 9.ldeg. on August 11 when the thermometer on the grass de scended to 22.9 deg. Gales blew on days. There was thunder on four days hail on twenty-four, and fog on fourteen Temperatures during the major-part ol the year failed to reach normal, but November and December between them pro vided so much warmth iu excess of the normal that the mean temperature for the year was very slightly tn excess o! the average of previous years, ine tollowing table gives the mean temperature for each month;— % Departure Previous from 1934. Average. Normal Degrees. Degrees. Degrees.

The year 1934 had 121 hours more sunshine than could be reasonably, expected from previous years, and their averages, the last three months being responsible for this excess. Between March and September there was, on the other hand, rather less sunshine than usual. The 101lowing table gives the number of hours of bright sunshine recorded eaC p € p"° r Previous from 1934. Average. Normal. Hours. Hours. Hours.

T ° tal for year 2157.9 2036.8 +121.1 Rain fell on 151 days out of the 365, 'be average number of days with ram in previous years being 167 But m spite of the fewer days witli rain, the years rainfall vdtis 2.26 in. above the average. The year’s heaviest fall occurred on May 4, when the rain totalled 2.39 in. The lollowing table" gives the rainfall in inches for each month of the year, together with averages computed from previous years and the departure from these: — Departure Previous from 1934 average normal Ins. Ins. Ins.

Wind so often spoils Wellington’s spring and early summer weather, but ia 1934 thiJfcwas not the case. October ant, December were both much calmer than usual, and November remarkably so. No month of the year was windy to excess and the year as a whole was calmer than usual. In the following table the average daily run of wind in miles for each month is given : — Departure Previous from 1934 average norma! Miles Miles Miles \

January .... 60.2 61.7 —1.5 February ... March 61.6 58.3 61.7 59.7 —1.4 April » May 56.4 50.2 56.2 51.9 4-0.2 —1.7 June 47.2 .48.6 —M July 45.6 46.9 —1.1 August 48.0 47.7 4-0.3 September .. 51.2 50.7 4-0.5 —0.1 October .... 53.4 53.5 55.9 November ... 59.2 4-3.3 December .,. For year .... 66.2 54.8 59.4 54.5 4-6.8 4-0.3

January February . March .... .. 221.1 .. 210.2 .. 179.1 227.7 209.0 188.6 '+6.6 +1.2 —9.5 April .... May .. 150.6 .. 113.5 153.6 131.7 •—3.0 —18.2 .. 99.5 108.0 —8.5 .. 111.2 109.5 +2.7 August ... .. 125.8 140.6 —14.8 September October November .. 162.2 .. 195.S .. 274.9 161.7 177.2 205.3 +0.5 +.18.6 + 69.6 December .. 313.7 224.9 -j- 88.8

January • ••• 2.03 2.81 —0.78 February ... 3.51 2.67 +0.84 Marell 2.44 3.11 —0.67 April . 3.50 3.53 . —0.03 May 4.53 3.OS +0.OO June 4.81 4.10 +0.62 July 6.10 4.71 +1.30 August .... 5.15 3.82 + 1.33 September .. 2.21 3.11 —0.00 October 6.85 3.41 + 3.44 November 2.16 2.00 •—0.74 December 0.05 2.84 —2.79 Total for year 43.34 41.08 + 2.26

January 244 260 —16 February 194 238 —44 March 251 240 + 11 April ’17 232 +° May .... 212 219 June ... 135 208 —<3 July 194 202 —8 August 220 217 + 9 Sentember 247 247 0 October 249 283 —34 November 167 279 — 112 1 leeember 211 27S —67 Year 214 242 —28