SEPTEMBER WEATHER.

Shannon News, 9 October 1925, Page 4

SEPTEMBER WEATHER.

WELLINGTON, October 7. Mr. D. C. Bates, director of th( meteorological office, has issued the following' summary of the weather for the month of September:— The weather during September was on the whole unsettled-'] bleak and squally. Atmospheric pressure was bel’ow the {average over the Dominion for nearly the whole of the month an ft westerly disturbances, predominated. The rainfall was therefore above the average in' all parts however, at no stage caused his supwith a westerly aspect, but deficient in most of the East Coast districts. There were several hard frosts in both islands and especially on the East Coast of south, which* however, experienced very trying weather between the 12th * and 14th, when the barometer was highest in the south. Spring weather prevailed in most parls from the 3rd' to the Bth, when there were some heavy falls of snow in the South Island. The weather conditions were also severe between the 19th and the 27th and the West Coast rivers were in hig-h flood. Some rather severe hail storms were reported with occasional thunderstorms. The season’s conditions seem to have been rather unfa\ourable to agricultural and pastora-l pursuits.