MASTERTON WEATHER
SUMMARY FOR MARCH,
Mr N. W. Towns, Masterton weather recorder, supplies the following summary for March, (figures for March last year given in parentheses): Pressure at 9 a.m. standard time, highest 30.72 inches on 17th (30.62); lowest, 29.88 on 2nd (29.49). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum, 77 degrees on 30th (83.34); absolute shade minimum, 33.9 degrees on 3rd (40.1). Thus the range was 43.1 (43.2). Mean temperature for the month, 57.8 (61.3). Absolute grass minimum, 22.2 degrees on 3rd (30.6); average grass minimum, 40.86 (42.5); average at one foot underground, 59.9 (62.9). Severest frost, 8.1 degrees on night of 2nd (nil). Days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 degrees Fahr, or lower), 3 (nil); of shade temperature below 32 degrees F., nil (nil); of gale, 2 (2). Total rainfall, 4.19 inches on 15 days (3.95); greatest fall, 233 points on 11th (150). Total sunshine, 173.3 hours (202.5); daily average, 5.6; sunniest day, 3rd and 14th, 12 hours (12.7); wind run, 1919 miles (2054); average, 61.9.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420402.2.44
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1942, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
165MASTERTON WEATHER Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1942, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in