MASTERTON WEATHER
SUMMARY FOR MAY. Miss A. M. Brown, Masterton weather recorder, supplies the following summary for May (figures for May last year given in parentheses):— Pressure at 9 a.m. standard time, highest 30.86 inches on 22nd (30.73); lowest, 29.96 on 26th (29.83). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum, 70.3 degrees on 20th (71.0); absolute shade minimum 27.2 degrees on 18th (29.1-. Thus the range was 43.1 (41.9). Mean temperature for the month, 50.7 (51.7). Absolute grass minimum, 18.6 on 18th (20.0); average grass minimum, 33.6 (31.2); average at one foot underground, 50.9 (52.3). Severest frost, 11.8 on night of 18th (10.4). Days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 degrees Fahr, or lower), 13 (20); of shade temperature below 32 degrees F, 3 (3); of gale, 4 (2). Total rainfall, 1.50 inches on 14 days (1.21); greatest fall, 38 points on 25th (62). Total sunshine, 147.4 hours (165.8); daily average. 4.8; sunniest day. sth, 9.6 hours (9.1); wind-run, 1787 miles (1299); average, 41.9.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 June 1939, Page 3
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