HIGH BAROMETER
AN ABNORMAL READING IN CHRISTCHURCH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Barometers in the city were higher than normal this morning, climbing to within .215 inches of the record established in 1903, when at 9.30 a.m. on October 20 the official reading at the' Magnetic Observatory was 30.885 inches. This morning the reading at the Wigram Meteorological Station was 30.670 inches, or 1038.7 millibars, at 8.30 a.m., this being the highest reading since August 14, 1937, when the barometer rose to 30.702 inches at the Magnetic Observatory in the city. The figure was 30.651 inches at nine o’clock and it was the same two hours later, when it began to fall slightly. The lowest reading ever registered in Canterbury was 28.387 inches on the morning of January 16 of this year, during a strong north-west gale.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1939, Page 6
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138HIGH BAROMETER Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1939, Page 6
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