Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1869 – No. 14

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TABLE 3.

RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT HOKITIKA, WESTLAND, NEW ZEALAND, FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1868.

Latitude 42 deg. 41 min. 30 sec. S. Longitude 170 deg. 59 min. E. Height above sea level 8 feet. Distance from sea, quarter of a mile.

Barometer at 9.30 a.m. Corrected and reduced to 32 deg. Fahr., and sea level. Self-Registering Thermometers. Hygrometer. Rain. Wind.
Mean. Greatest Pressure. Least Pressure. Mean Temp. of Air. Highest in Shade.
---------------- ------------------- -------------------- ------------------- ---------------------- ---------------------
1868 Inches. Inches. Inches. Deg. Deg.
January 29.921 30.345 29.290 67.5 84.5
February 29.824 30.293 29.083 65.7 88.1
March 30.006 30.363 29.583 60.0 76.4
April 29.931 30.389 29.579 54.6 74.3
May 30.066 30.471 29.377 48.9 65.2
June 29.980 30.374 29.341 45.9 63.8
July 29.841 30.461 29.131 43.9 60.2
August 29.893 30.269 29.376 45.1 62.1
September 29.991 30.538 29.448 48.9 69.4
October 29.794 30.437 29.274 52.8 72.4
November 29.952 30.326 29.429 57.0 76.3
December 29.809 30.389 29.217 59.6 78.9
Year 1868 Mean. Max. Min. Mean Max. Min. Mean Mean Max. Min. Mean Mean Mean Sum. Max. Sum. Sum. Sum. Sum. Sum. Sum. Sum. Sum. Sum. Sum. Sum. Mean Sum. Sum.
29.924 30.538 29.063 55.0 88.1 27.7 11.6 50.3 93.5 21.9 48.6 .347 93 120.21 4.02 214 61 53 41 36 60 43 25 26 154 193 5.9 9 13

Year 1867 | -- | -- | -- | 53.8 | 79.0 | 31.7 | 11.6 | 49.8 | 90.0 | 21.6 | 47.8 | .343 | 91 | 110.11 | 3.89 | 198 | 68 | 49 | 56 | 38 | 84 | 46 | 21 | 21 | 160 | 181 | -- | 6 | 18 |

Mean of 1867-68 | -- | -- | -- | 51.9 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 6.0 | -- | 7 |

Notes:
(a) 18th September.
(b) 3rd February.
(c) 4th February.
(d) 11th July.
(e) 12th February.
(f) 2nd August.
(g) 11th June.
(h) 4th January.



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