MASTERTON WEATHER
SUMMARY FOR AUGUST. Miss A. M. Brown, Masterton weather recorder, supplies the following summary for August (figures for August last year given in parentheses):—Pressure at 9 a.m. standard time, highest, 30.53 inches on 2nd (30.77); lowest, 29.32 on 12th (29.8). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum, 63.9 degrees on 29th (67.8); absolute shade minimum, 25.6 degrees on 7th (26.4). Thus the .range was 38.3 (41.4). Mean temperature for the month, 46.8 (46.8); absolute grass minimum, 17.8 on 3rd (18.4) average grass minimum, 29.6 (30.4) average at one foot underground, 43.9 (44.5).' Severest frost, 12.6 on night of 3rd (12.0). Days of frost, 12.6 on night of 3rd (12.0); days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 degrees Fahr or lower), 19 (18); of shade temperature below 32 degrees F., 6 (11); of gale, 3 (2). Total rainfall, 3.58 inches on 22 days (2.77); greatest fall, 63 points on 16th (73). Total sunshine, 155.4 hours (139.3); daily average, 5.01; sunniest day, 15th, 9.8 hours (9.9); wind run, 2268 miles (2227); average, 73.2.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 9
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169MASTERTON WEATHER Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 9
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