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, 30.79 inches on 4th and sth (30.53); lowest, 29.85 on 16th (29.32). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum, 63.2 degrees on 28th (63.9); absolute shade minimum. 28.7 degrees on Ist (25.6). Thus the range was 34.5 (38.3). Mean temperature for the month. 47 (46.8). Absolute grass minimum, 19.7 on 6th (17.8); average grass minimum, 31.6 (29.6); average at one foot underground, 44.5 (43.9). Severest frost, 10.7 on night of sth (12.6). Days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 degrees Fahr, or lower). 18 (19); of shade temperature below 32 degrees F., 5 (6); of gale, 2 (3). Total rainfall, 4.56 inches on 16 days <3.58); greatest fall. 72 points on 15th (63). Total sunshine, 124.0 hours (155.4): daily average. 4; sunniest day 21st, 9.8 hours (9.8); wind run. 1816 miles! 2268); average 58.6.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1940, Page 7
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