GISBORNE RAINFALL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20110, 2 December 1939, Page 4

GISBORNE RAINFALL

WELL BELOW AVERAGE RECORDING OF 3.021 N. Rainfall well below the average for the past 60 years was registered in Gisborne for the 11 months of the year to the end of November. The total for the past month, 3.02 in., falling on 10 days, was slightly in excess of the average for the month, but did not assist much in building up the total for the year and so cutting down the discrepancy to any extent. For the same period last year .73in fell on 11 days. The rain registered in Gisborne at the meteorological ' station during November would have been much lower had it not been for the wet spell towards the end of the month. In the first 23 days 1.38 in had fallen, and then 1.64 in was recorded in the following four days. At the signal station 4.13 in was registered on nine days. The rainfall in Gisborne for the first 11 months of 1937, 1938, and 1939 and the averages for those months over the past 60 years are tabulated below as follows:

Totals 38.03 53.47 28.86 42.47 Following are the individual recordings at the meteorological station for the past month, the figures registered at the signal station being shown in parenthesis:—November 2, 0.14 in (O.lOin); November 4, O.lOin (0.24 in); November 9,0.04 in ( —); November 12, 0.90 in (0.67 in); November 13, 0.16 in (0.24 in); November 14. 0.04 in (0.01 in); November 24, 1.29 in (1.38 in); November 25, o.oßin (0.08 in); November 26, 0.22 in (0.33 in); November 27. 0.05 in (0.08 in).

1937 1938 1939 Avg. in. in. in. in. January 5.15 2.69 2.61 2.76 February .... .73 9.96 1.05 3.59 March 2.97 2.13 .84 4.31 April 2.86 8.15 4.09 3.91 May 1.70 7.01 2.52 5.30 June 5.55 2.29 2.64 4.83 July 3.66 12.14 3.40 5.00 August 6.92 5.20 1.50 .4,25 September 2.14 2.68 4.77 2.99 October 3.36 1.56 1.42 2.64 November 2.53 .72 3.02 2.88