RAIN AND SNOW
CANTERBURY SHIVERS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.l
CHRISTCHURCH, July 31. Snow fell in the city today for the first time this winter. During the last fortnight there has been an unbroken succession of south-west storms with .driving though rarely heavy rain. Today the temperature was bitterly cold and in the evening light snow fell. The fall has been much heavier in the back country.
Rainfall figures for the year in Christchurch may yet break records. The normal rainfall is 29.94 inches. This figure has not been reached for several years, but already this year the
fall is 22.96 inches. The whole country is deeply saturated, retarding the tillage of arable land. The wheat acreage is likely to be lower than usual in consequence.
The only damage threatening was from the flooding of Lake Forsyth. The level has been rising, but the outlet from the lake to the sea was opened today, and unless the southerly, sea closes it too soon, the level of the lake will quickly fall. The flooding had caused little damage, except the submersion of some marginal grazing land. The water lay on parts of the Little River Road, but not sufficiently deep to stop traffic.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19360801.2.83.8
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 11
Word Count
200RAIN AND SNOW Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in