WEATHER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1939, Page 4

WEATHER

MASTERTON’S WEATHER. RECORD FOR MARCH. Miss A. M. Brown, Masterton weather recorder, supplies the following summary for March (the figures for March last year given in parentheses): — Pressure at 9 a.m. standard time, highest, 30.63 inches on 9th (30.56); lowest, 30 on 28th (29.9). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum 84.1 degrees on 7th (85.2); absolute shade minimum, 33.5 degrees on 30th (40.1). Thus the range was 50.6 (45.1). Mean temperature for the month, 60.98 (77.2). Absolute grass minimum, 23.2 on 30th (30.3); average grass minimum, 40.1 (44.5); average at one foot underground, 63.3 (65.2). Severest frost, 7.2 on night of 30th (0.1). Days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 degrees Fahr, or lower), 4 (1); of shade temperature below 32 degrees F., 0 (0)); of gale, 1 (2). Total rainfall. 0.74 inches on 7 days (1.30); greatest fall, 34 points on 10th (63). Total sunshine. 231.4 hours (226.5); daily average, 7.5; sunniest day, 2nd, 12.55 hours (12.2); wind-run, 1467 miles (1800); average, 47.3. Miss A. M. Brown reports as follows for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. today:— Barograph, 30.54. Shade temperature: Maximum 74.1, minimum 34.4, terrestrial 25.7. Sunshine, 10 hours 25 min. Frost, 4.7 degrees. General situation: Light to moderate northerly winds tending later to southerly. Weather: Fine with. moderate temperatures.