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May was also a fine month, the mean temperature
being 513 deg. the minimum and maximum 360 deg. and 75.5
deg. respectively. There were only seven rainy days and a
rainfall of 0.7S inch. The winds were north-east and south-west.
June was a month of summer. The minimum temperature
was40.0 deg., the maximum 8o.o deg., with a mean of 61.7 deg.
There were only five rainy days, but the rain storms were exceptionally
heavy, and the total rainfall for the month was equal to
3.28 inches. The weather of the three months was, therefore,
particularly favourable. The temperatures were agreeable and
the sunshine abundant.
The September Quarter.
July was warm, the mean temperature being 66.1 deg., the
extremes 43.0 deg. and 85.o deg. The winds were south-east
and south-west. Rain fell on seven days, the total rainfall being
1.13 inch.
August was tropical in weather. The mean temperature
was 69.0 deg., the extremes 50.0 deg. and 92.0 deg. On five
days rain fell, the rainfall equalling only 0.28 inch. The winds
were variable.
The first week of September was the hottest of the year, the
temperature attaining 94.0 deg. The remainder of the month
was, however, more normal, and the mean temperature was
61.7 deg. There were seven rainy days; the rainfall measured
1.0 inch.
The weather of the three months was, on the whole,
therefore, dry, sunny, and warm.
December Quarter.
October was a wet, warm month. On no less than 17 days
rain fell, the total rainfall being 3.19 inches. The mean temperature
was 68.8 deg., the extremes being 35.5 deg. and
70.0 deg.
November was also a month of heavy rainfall, 4.49 inches
falling in 14 days. The winds were north-east and south-west.
The mean temperature was 47.1 deg., the minimum 30.0 deg.,
the maximum 6o.o deg.
The first three weeks of December were mild. Then followed
a week of frost and snow. The lowest temperature was
20.0 deg., the highest 55.0 deg., and the mean 36.9 deg. There
were 10 rainy days and three snowy days; the total fall was
equal to 1.66 inch of rain. The winds were mostly north-west.
The three months were, therefore, as a whole, with the
exception of about 10 wintry days, mild and wet.