WEATHER
Miss A. M. Brown reports as follows for the 24 ho<urs ended 9 a.m. today:— Barograph, 3D.09. Shade temperature: Maximum 57.9, minimum 42.3, terrestrial 36.5. Sunshine, 6 hours 3 minutes. Rain, 44 points. Mr H. M. Boddington reports that 35 points of rain fell at Sokway during the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. -today. General situation: Pressure is low to the east, especially near East Cape while an anti-cyclone of considerable intensity covers the l.’asman Sea and southern. New Zealand. Barometers are falling over south-eastern Australia, Forecast: Southerly gales gradually decreasing during tonight and tomorrow. Weather unsettled and showery, with snow on the rang es and hail in places but improving "during tomorrow; temparatures very cold. Hailstorms, with enormous “stones” have been known to destroy eighty square miles -of wheat in a quarter of an hour in C'anada. A cav e re cently discovered in the Guadalupe Mountain, New Mexico, contains, one chamber measuring over three m tiles Long and 700 feet wide.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1938, Page 6
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