WEATHER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1939, Page 4

WEATHER

MASTERTON WEATHER SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER. Miss A. M. Brown, Masterton weather recorder, supplies the following summary for October (figures for last year given in parentheses):—Pressure at 9 a.m. Standard Time, highest, 30.71 inches on 4th (30.54); lowest, 29.87 on 30th (29.91). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum. 70.8 degrees on 17th (76.2); absolute shade minimum, 29 degrees on 3rd (32.4). Thus the range was 41.8 (43.8). Mean temperature for the month, 51.8 (55.1). Absolute grass minimum. 18.9 on 3rd (23.7); average grass minimum, 34.4 (34.2); average at one foot underground, 53.9 (55.4). Severest frost, 11.5 on night of 3rd (6.7). Days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 degrees Fahr, or lower), 13 (11); of shade temperature below 32 degrees F., 2 (0); of gale, 6 (6). Total rainfall. 1.22 inches on 13 days (1.31); greatest fall, 27 points on 12th (.48). Total sunshine, 195.1 hours (238.3); daily average. 6.3; sunniest day, 23rd. 12.4 hours (12.15); wind run, 2732 miles (2782); average, 88.1. Miss A. M. Brown reports as follows for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. today;— Barograph, 30.30. Shade temperature: Maximum 74.4, minimum 37.2, terrestrial 27.7. Sunshine, 13 hours 48 min. Frost, 2.7 degrees. Weather forecast: Strong north-west winds reaching gale force in places; weather fair to cloudy and mild but scattered rain in and west of the ranges.