MASTERTON WEATHER
SUMMARY FOR JULY.
Mr N. W. Towns, Masterton weather recorder, supplies the following summary for July (figures for July last year given in parentheses)Pressure at 8 a.m. standard time, highest 30.72 inches on 9th (30.9); lowest 29.89 on 2nd and 11th (29.97). Temperatures: Absolute shade maximum, 68.3 degrees on 2nd (63.1): absolute shade minimum, 28.0 degrees on 9th (23.4). Thus the range was 40.3 (39.7). Mean temperature for the month, 45.8 (44.4) Absolute grass minimum, 20.5 on 9th (13.9) ; average grass minimum, 33.0 (28.2); average at one foot underground, 48.0 (43.2). Severest frost, 9.8 degrees on night of 9th (16.5) Days of frost (grass minimum 30.4 degrees Fahr, or lower), 9 (17); of shade temperature below 32 degrees F., 8 (11); of gale 3 (3). Total rainfall, 6.23 inches on 22 days (2.85 inches); greatest fall, 248 points on 13th (75). Total sunshine, 82.5 hours (125.3); daily average, 2.7; sunniest day, 22nd, 9 hours (8.9) wind run, 2839 miles (2041); average 91.6.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1942, Page 6
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164MASTERTON WEATHER Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1942, Page 6
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