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JUNE QUARTER
Four of the five weeks of April were wet; on 18 days,
2.63 inches of rain falling. Minimum temperature, 24.2°;
maximum, 72.0° ; mean, 48.0°. The last April week was warm
and summer-like. The sunshine generally was above the average,
varying from 24 to 73 per cent.
May was exceptionally mild, dry, and bright. Rain fell
on only four days (0.61 inch). Winds generally easterly. The
sunshine varied from 41 to 62 per cent. Minimum temperature,
34.0° ; maximum, 76.0° ; mean, 50.5°.
June was generally fine and dry, with light variable winds.
On five days slight rain fell (0.15 inch). Minimum temperature,
40.0" ; maximum, 8o.o° ; mean, 62.3°. Sunshine varied from
41 to 48 per cent.
SEPTEMBER QUARTER
The first four weeks of July were bright, warm, and almost
rainless, on only one day 0.2 inches of rain, accompanied by
thunder and lightning, falling, but during the fifth week storms
of exceptional violence brought the rainfall up to 3.94 inches.
Minimum temperature, 48.0° ; maximum, 86.8° ; mean, 67.5°.
Sunshine varied from 28 to 61 per cent.
August was dry and bright. During the four weeks ending
the 24th, rain fell on only two days (0.26 inch), and the sunshine
varied from 50 to 68 per cent. The minimum temperature was
45.0° ; maximum, 97.0° ; mean, 67.2°. Winds light and variable.
September was a month of average weather. There were
only five rainy days, but the rains were heavy (1.71 inch). The
sunshine varied from 17 to 39 per cent The winds were mostly
westerly. Minimum temperature, 45.0° ; maximum, 82.5° ;
mean, 6o.1°.
DECEMBER QUARTER.
October was dull, and for the most part overcast. On eight
days rain fell, but the fall measured only 0.87 inch. The winds
were light and variable, but mostly S.E. and S.W. Minimum
temperature, 33.5°; maximum, 73o° ; mean, 54.3°. The sunshine
varied from 11 to 23 per cent.