WET MONTH

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 10, 9 December 1926, Page 11

WET MONTH

WEATHER IN NOVEMBER. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Dec. 8. The following weather summary for November is supplied by the Government Meteorological Office: November is regarded as the last spring month and as /such may be characterised as • more than usually wet, windy and cold. The outstanding features of the month to record were the great floods in the Buffer, Waihakaka and Wairau rivers in the first week of the month. Heavy rains at the end of the preceding month had soaked the land and swollen the streams, as well as leaving the snow on the uplands, and when on November 3 extensive westerly low pressure winds laden with vapour made their appearance many things combined to account for the record floods. It rained every day from October 27 to November 6 in many places on the West Coast and faffs, were excessive in the high country. ■ At Arthur’s Pass on the 3rd the rainfall was 4.94 in, 4th 12.70 in, sth 0.80 in; Greymouth, 1.34 in, 2.26 in, 8.49 i n; Reefton, 1.96 in, 2.28 in, 8.50 in; Westport, 1.40 in, 1.91 in, 8.31 in. Rainfall was in excess in all parts of the country except in Hawke’s Bay and some districts in Otago. Thunderstorms with haiUwere reported in many places, and one in Hawke’s Bay on the 12th did much damage to orchards.

Several high frosts occurred, particularly in the South Island,, and a cold southerly wind which brought snow on the uplands on the 27th and 28th caused loss in newly shorn sheep. Shearing and haymaking were generally retarded, and growth in vegetation was backward for the time of year in many parts of the Dominion.