CORRESPONDENCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3205, 6 October 1881, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE WEATHER IN HAWKE'S

BAY.

[To the Editor of the Daily Tbleghiaph.l Sib,—Tho Telegraph of date 17th ultimo contains a request for information on the weather inland in Hawke'e Bay. •\s it is now the end of the month, and no answer has appeared, I think it a pity ?o let the opportunity pass without saying a few words on the subject, when you state it is intended to be useful to those who propose settling in the colony. I' # have drawn t:p a condensed report (from observations made and notes taken at the timj) shoeing the number of days m each month ou which rain fell, and the warnings ■when frost occurred, also adding fnz days vben the wind blew with more ih?.\\ ordinary force. I hope it :r»&y '(-nvey no*nß idea of the climate of this diutri-jt, say east from the Ruahine Ranges as far as Waipawa or Kaikora, and from the Seventy-mile Bush at the south end of the Ruataoawha Plains to Hampden or Maraekakaho. lam aware rain often falls in Napier, and as far south as Paki Paki, when it is dry here. Those high winds, rain and frosts, are marked features, the ordinary weather being more of a mild character, with bright sunshine all day and clear sky at night, the prevailing wind and slight breezes being from the south and west. Tfee dark rain clouds cover or partly cover the ranges for two and three days in succession, and the wool-pack and other light clouds generally rise from behind and more eastword during dry and fine days. The following is a summary of the days upon which rain and frost fell from October, 1880, to September, 1881 : — BAIN, 1880. EBO3T, 1880. Month. Days. Month. Days. October 7 October 2 November ... 5 November ... 0 December ... 5 December ... 0 1881. ' 1881. January 5 January 0 February ... 3 February ... 0 March 3 March 0 April 3 April 5 May ... ... 6 May 8 June 7 June 10 July ... ... 9 July 10 August 10 August ... ... 4 September ... 8 September ... 3 Total ... 70 Total ... 42 The wind blew hard twenty-four days during the year, sometimes two days in succession. For thirteen days we were without B'snshiue, or cloudy all day, and five days without seeing a cloud in the sky, namely, January 29th, February 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, and April 21st. Fogs occurred on, difT.ji'ent occasions, but did not last many hours. Out of the seventy days on which vuin fell thirty-four were showery, with sunshine now and then, or slight drizzly rain. Only one thunderstorm of any note took place, viz., on the 18th of December.—l am, &c.

Kaikora, 80th September, 1881