MASTERTON WEATHER
SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER. Miss A. M. Brown, Masterton weather recorder, supplies the following summary for December (figures for last year given in parentheses): —Pressure at 9 a.m. standard time, highest, 30.44 inches on 22nd (30.35); lowest, 29.63 on 11th (29.48). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum, 84.5 degrees on 23rd (80.1); absolute shade minimum, 37.2 degrees on 9th (34.5). Thus the range was 47.3 (45.6). Mean temperature for the month, 62,5 (57.6). Absolute grass minimum, 26.1 on 9th (25.5); average grass minimum, 42.3 (39.4); average at one foot underground, 65 (61.9). Severest frost, 4.3 on night of 9th (4.9). Days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 fahr. or lower), 3 (3); of shade temperature below 32 degrees fahr., 0 (0); of gale, 6 (10). Total rainfall. 3.06 inches on 9 days (4.61); greatest fall, 137 points on 10th (172). Total sunshine, 277.2 hours (232.5); daily average, 8.94; sunniest day, 6th, 1'4.5 hours (14.2); wind run, 2778 miles (3408); average. 89.6.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1940, Page 7
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