THE WEATHER.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 125, 25 November 1895, Page 2

THE WEATHER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sir, — As a supplement to my letter of yesterday's date, I would add that the intense and unprecedented heat and drought which has been experienced on the other side of the world, up to the end of September last, may have had something to do in affecting onr weather on this side of the world. From the report of the London Weekly Times, of October 4th, on "The extraordinary heat," it appears that the temperature in London reached 85 degrees on the 27th September, and it goes on to say that in Paris " The average daily maximum temperature for September was 61 degrees, or 9 degrees above the average for the last 10 years. The observations of the Paris Observatory since its foundation in 1869 show no precedent for such heat and drought in September. September 7th was the hottest day this year with 97 degrees, the nearest approach to which was 88 degrees in September, 1886, and 89 degrees in September, 1734." In a leading article of the same issue of the Weekly Times, whilst commenting on the heat, it is suggested in an apparently semi-jocular tone that according to the Americans we must give op the old-fashioned theory that excessive heat at the wrong season is not due to the sun but to "heat waves." " They merely remark that there is a beat wave and are content. Why there should be a heat wave, whence it comes, or whither it goes, are questions with which they do not concern themselves." I trust (but dare not prophesy) that either the sun or this American heat wave will compensate us during the ensuing summer months for the wretched weather we have experienced and are still experiencing, during the, present season. I am, etc., Saml. Goodbehere. Feilding, 21st November, 1895.