Degrees of Frost
k*1"; — Could you please explain tlio frost readings. Wlien 1 was at scliool wo were tohi that frcczin'g poinc wan 32 degrees E. Now, aecor.ding lo your paper, the thcrmometer reading .on Saturday niorning was 21 degrees. Therefore, I make it 11 degrees of frost, but vou give it as 9' degres. If you could give sonie explanation, I am sure niaiiy people would be glad of it. Has tlio now Government lowcred tho freezing point along with everything olse? — Yours, etc., SOMEWHAT PEltPLEXED. [Tlie point raised by our corrospondent was explained in our columns ou Saturday. Just over a year ago the scale by which the frosts are measured was reduced by two degrees. Hastings was one ofthe last eentres to fall into line with ihis new "scale, but it was foreed to do so after Napier had ,adopted it. Therefore, by the old scale, Saturday 's frost aetually was 11 degreesj aud by the ncw scuJc it was 9 degrees. — Ed.J
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 162, 27 July 1937, Page 3
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