WEATHER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1938, Page 4

WEATHER

Miss A. M. Brown reports as follows for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday:—Barograph, 30.35. Shade temperature: Maximum 52.8, minimum 42.1, terrestrial 39.0. Sunshine, 1 hour 51 minutes. Rain, 15 points. Miss Brown reports as follows for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. today:—Barograph, 30.33. Shade temperature: Maximum 46.8, minimum 41.0, terrestrial 37.1; sunshine, 1 hour 32 minutes. Rain, 10 points. Mr H. M. Boddingtcm reports that 16 points of rain fell at Solway during the 24 hours ended 9 a.rru today. General situation: An anticyclone of moderate intensity extends from the north-west Tasman Sea across the South Island and is moving slowly eastward. Pressure has fallen considerably over south-eastern Australia. Forecast, light to moderate southerly to south-easterly winds, later tending to northerly; some scattered rain at first in eastern areas but otherwise fair to fine; temperatures cold with some frosts. SUMMARY FOR AUGUST. Miss A. Brown, Masterton recorder, supplies the following weather summary for August for the corresponding period of last year given in parentheses):— Pressure: Highest reading at 9 a.m.,j 30.77 on August 10 <30.82); lowest, 29.8, on 10th (29.67). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum, 67.8 degrees on 29th (64.2); absolute shade minimum, 26.4 on 7th (25.1) Thus the range was 41.4. Mean temperature for month, 46.8 (46.6). Absolute grass minimum, 18.4 on 7th (17.1) average grass minimum, 30.4 (29.3); average at one foot underground, 44.5 (43.8). Severest frost, 12 degrees on night of 6th. Days of frost (grass minimum 30.3 degrees Fahr, or lower), 18 (18); of gale, 2; of shade minimum below freezing point, 11 (10). Total rainfall (100 points to the inch): 2.77 inches on 14 days (1.75); greatest fall, 73 points on 18th (55pts.). Total sunshine, 139.3 hours. (146.7); daily average, 4.5 hours. Wind-run, 2227 miles (1910)g average, 71.8.