MASTERTON WEATHER
SUMMARY FOR MAY. s 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 30.74 inches on 7th (30.95); lowest. 29.57 on 19th (29.96). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum, 68.1 degrees on 3rd (70.3); absolute shade minimum, 26.1 degrees on 31st (27.2). Thus the range was 42 (43.1). Mean temperature for the month, 47.2 (50.7). Absolute grass minimum, 17.8 on 31st (18.6) average grass minimum, 31.47 (33.6) average at one foot underground, 48.1 (50.9). Severest frost, 12.6 on night of 30th (11.8). Days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 degrees Fahr, or lower), 15 (13); of shade temperature below 32 degrees F., 5 (3); of gale, 3 (5). The total rainfall, 4.49 inches on 20 days (1.50); greatest fall, 149 points on 9th (38). Total sunshine, 125.3 hours (147.4); daily average, 4.04; sunniest day, 12th, 9.4 hours (9.6); wind run, 2545 miles (1787); average. 82.1.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1940, Page 7
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