MASTERTON WEATHER
SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY. Miss A. M. Brown, Masterton weather recorder, supplies the following summary for February (figures for February last year given in parentheses):— Pressure at 9 a.m. standard time, 30.22 inches on 19th (30.46); lowest, 39.49 on 3rd (29.81). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum, 86.6 on 23rd (89.2); absolute shade minimum, 36.8 degrees on 15th (37.0); thus the range was 49.8 (52.2). Mean temperature for the month, 62.6 (63.5). Absolute grass minimum, 29.3 on 15th (28.6); average grass minimum 44.9 (41.4); average at one foot underground, 65.2 (65.9). Severest frost. 1.1 on night of 15th (1.8). Days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 degrees Fahr, or lower), 1 (4); of shade temperature below 32 degrees F„ 0 (0); of gale, 14 (4). Total rainfall, 1.85 inches on 15 days (0.54); greatest fall, 46 points on 24th (12). Total sunshine. 243.2 hours (247.3); daily average 8.4: sunniest day, 4th, 13.6 hours (13.4); wind run. 4207 miles (2283); average. 104.5.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1940, Page 7
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