METEOROLOGICAL.
There were 22 days of rain in Otaki f iu Alarch. The total for the month was J 7.04 inches. The heaviest day's rain 1 was on the 21st. when I.tiSiu. fell. ■ March of 1921 had 2.44 inches of rain, I which fell on 15 days of the month, s The average for March for tliu last j 18 years was 2.88 inches. It will thus be seen that the month | just past had an abnormally heavy rain- j fall. It is 15 years since we had such | a wet Alarch; in 1907 the month had a fall of 7.43 inches (which is oven I more than that of Alarch 1922 by ;l 1 third of an inch). None of the ’liter, yening- years had more than about four inches, and most of them much less. 1 During March rain fell on 22 dam 1 i" Pain.ersto-n North, vie! lit,.- ~ tl(t * aJ | ot 5.5.8 inches, the highest rainfall he. B lug- on Alarch 2 and 27, when 1.03 i„. 1 dies and 1.02 inches, respectivole, f, ]] Ej
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Otaki Mail, 3 April 1922, Page 2
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