METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 34, 16 September 1871, Page 10

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, WELLINGTON.

Foe Jit it, 1871.

* Means, &c. f Means previous seven years. Notes.—From Ist to 6th, fine and pleasant N.W. weather, though strong wind on 3rd and 4th ; wet, cold, and disagreeable on 7th, and dull and threatening on the Bth, with lightning at night; fine and clear with frosty nights from 9th to evening of 15th, when it changed to unpleasant, wet, and stormy from N.W., but oleared up on the 16th ; lightning on night of 16th; fine, but cold, on 17th; on night of 18th severe storm from W .W., with rain, vivid lightning, and distant thunder; continued unsettled showery weather and stormy up to the 21st from same quarter ; on morning of 21st, severe squall, with thunder, lightning and rain from N.W., clearing off during the day; at noon on 22nd sudden change to S.W., and squall of hail and rain, fine afternoon and frosty night; fine during 23rd, 24th, and 25th, but on night of 25th heavy rain fall, —max. for month 1.200 in. recorded on morning of 26th ; stormy on 26th and 27th from N.W., with rain ; from 28th to the end of the month wet and unpleasant from S.E. Altogether weather severe and unsettled during the month; 20 days of N.W. wind; max. temp, on 19th 58.5 ; aurora on 22nd ; lunar halo on 25th. R. B. Gore, Government Observer.

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