METEOROLOGICAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2701, 4 January 1910, Page 2

METEOROLOGICAL.

NOTES ON LAST YEAR’S WEATHER. The following notes on the meteorological conditions prevailing during 1909 have been supplied by the Ven. Archdeacon Williams:— Temperature. —With the exception of February, the mean temperature for each month has been above the average, resulting in a moan for the whole year of 59.2 Fa hr., which is 1.1 degree above the average for the last 30 years. The shade temperature has ranged from 92, on December 17, to 29, on the night of August 12. The coldest day was September 2, when the maximum only reached 4S, while the hottest night was the night of January 7, when the minimum did not fall lower than 70. There were during the year 34 days when the temperature rose to 80 or over, has only once been surpassed (37 days in 1907) during the last 30 years. The latest of these days was April 9, and the earliest this summer was November S, both dates being - exceptional forso high a temperature. There were in all 42 frosts during the year,.'Winch is 12 below the average,. being on April 16, and the latest on October 8; only on three occasions during the last 30 years hay the number of frosts been lower. ,'' X Rainfall . wßain has fallen on 149 days, G4which produced less than -.TO of an i,«fch, 72 between .10 and .99, and 13.. days with 1 inch or over; these lat--i'er being responsible for 23 inches, or 43 per cent of tlio fall for the whole year. The total rainfall was 53.72, which is 12 per cent above the average, 47.06 inches. The fall for June was the lowest on record for that month, being only one-tenth of the average. January produced only one-fiftli of the average. July and August were slightly below, and all the remaining months above the average, March, September, and December being each of them about double the average. The total for the three winter months—June, July, and August—was only 9.47 inches, or 37 per cent below the average for those months: while,, on the other hand, the •last throe months of the year have given us no less than 69 per cent above the average. During the last- 32 years there have been lower winter rainfalls on three occasions: while in 1593 November and December produced 7.35 and 5.76 inches respectively, as against 5.46 and 5.53 this year. Sunshine. —The number of days with unbroken ' sunshine has been high, 42, as against an average of' 32: hut. so, also, been the number of sunless- days, and the whole result has been disappointing. AVith the exception of January, June, and August, no mouth has reached the average record; while the amounts for April, May, and September are the lowest yet recorded for those months ; and the total amount is only a few hours better than that for 1907, which is the lowest yet recorded.