PLAINS RAINFALL.
GAUGING FOR FEBRUARY. HIGH TOTAL RECORDED. Almost five and a-half inches of rain fell at Kerepeehi during the past month, according t,o the gauge at the Lands Department Office. The average fall for February during the last fifteen years is 2.68 inches, and last month’s total has oply been exceeded three times during the month of February in that period—in 1917, 1920, and 1922. Last month’s weather was exceptional in that very heavy rain fell on three days. For the 24i-hour periods ending at 8 a.m. on the 2nd, 11th, and 28, the totals were over an inch. Rain was recorded on eleven days, and the longest period of fine weather was of six days, from the 2nd.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5095, 2 March 1927, Page 3
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120PLAINS RAINFALL. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5095, 2 March 1927, Page 3
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