MASTERTON WEATHER
SUMMARY FOR APRIL. Miss A. M. Brown, Masterton weather recorder, supplies the following summary for April (figures for April last year given in parentheses): —Pressure at 9 a.tn. standard time, highest, 30.71 inches on sth and 6th (30.66); lowest, 30.18 on 20th (29.88). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum, 77.8 degrees on Ist (85.8); absolute shade minimum, 29.3 degrees on sth (36.2). Thus the range was 48.5 (49.6). Mean temperature for the month, 55.05 (60.7). Absolute grass minimum. 20.2 on 7th (28.6); average grass minimum, 35.98 (50.7); average at one foot underground. 56.1 (61.76). Severest frost, 10.2 on night of 7th (1.8). Days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 degrees Fahr, or lower), 9 (1); of shade temperature below 32 degrees F.. 3 (0); of gale, ,1 (1). Total rainfall, 4.22 inches on 9 days (9.80); greatest fall. 159 points on 19th (141). Total sunshine, 164.2 hours (83.2); daily average, 5.5; sunniest day, 3rd, 10.7 hours (10.4); wind run. 1332 miles (1861); average, 44.4.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1939, Page 6
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163MASTERTON WEATHER Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1939, Page 6
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