UPPER PLAIN RAINFALL.
Mr J. C. Boddington reports :Rain fell on 6 days in September, (the average for the month during the past nine years being 16 days.) The maximum fall in 24 hours was 28 points, registered on the 12th, and 26 points registered on the 7th, the minimum being two points on the let. The total for the month was 1.04 inches, as compared with 5.13 inches last year, 8.02 in 1905, and 6.24 in 1907, the average for September being 4.14 inches. The total for the past nine months is 25.57 inches ,as compared with 30.91, 36.75, 3J.52, 47.34, 25.62, 29.82, 32.22, 32.35, and 38.56 inches for the corresponding period in 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911, and 1912, respectively, the average being 34.23 inches, consequently the rainfall so far this year is 8J inches short of the average. Eleven frosts were registered during the month, the heaviest being 6, 7, and 8£ degrees.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 October 1913, Page 5
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158UPPER PLAIN RAINFALL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 October 1913, Page 5
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