THE LATE FROST.
(PV,R UNITED PRESS #$$001 ATMN.) Siß,—The frosty nights' during the month of June were unprecedented in my experience of 12 winters in the town of Feilding. I registered frost on 22 nights during the month, 18 of which were on consecutive nights, with the exception of the nights of the 24th and -27th of the month. The mercury fell to 24deg. on 3 nights, 26deg. on 4 nights, 27deg. on 2 nights, 28deg. on 3 nights, 29deg. on 3 nights, SOdeg. on 3 nights, and 32deg. (freezing point) on 4 nights. The mean minimum temperature during these frosty nights was 28° 14, or, if taken with the thermometer on the grass it would have been about 3 degrees lower. The mean maximum temperature was 48 degrees, being a difference of 20 degrees between the day and night temperatures. I should like to receive some authentic information of any open pool or sheet of water having been frozen over to a thickness of half an inch, within ten miles of Feilding. It is said that ice must be 1^ inches thick to bear a man, 4 inches to support cavalry, 5 inches an 841 b cannon, 10 inche- t bear a multitude, and 18 inches to bear a railway train. I should think a quarter of an inch would bear a duck or gooae. — I am, &0., Saml. Goodbeheee. 1 Feilding, July 2, 1891.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 2, 4 July 1891, Page 2
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