MASTERTON’S WEATHER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1939, Page 4

MASTERTON’S WEATHER

SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY. Miss A. M. Brown, Masterton weather recorder, supplies the following summary for February (figures for February last year given in parentheses):— Pressure at 9 a.m. standard time: Highest, 30.46 inches on 24th and 28th (30.59); lowest, 29.81 on 19th (29.82). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum, 89.2 degrees on 3rd (88.9); absolute shade minimum, 37.0 degrees on 16th (45.7); thus the range was 52.2 (43.2). Mean temperature for the month, 63.5 (68.3). Absolute grass maximum, 28.6 on Bth (37.1); average grass minimum, 41.4 (53.1); average at one foot underground, 65.9 (68.3). Severest frost, 1.8 on night of Bth (0). Days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 deg. Fahr, or lower), 4 (0); of shade temperature below 32 degrees F., 0 (0); of gale, 4 (3). Total rainfall, 0.54 inches on 7 days (4.72); greatest fall, 12 points on 14th and 18th (1.37 inches). Total sunshine. 247.3 hours (167.1); daily average, 8.8; sunniest day, 9th. 13.4 hours (13.0); wind run, 2283 miles (1934); average, 81.5. ‘ LONGBUSH RAINFALL. Mr A. C. Gawith. Waikoukou, Longbush, reports that the rainfall lor February was 30 points, and that January and February of this year have been by far the driest two consecutive months in the last 23 years.