New Zealand Gazette – 1929 – No. 28

Page 1065

✨ Meteorological Observations

APRIL 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1065

Government Meteorological Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations at Kelburn, Wellington, for the Month of February, 1929. Observations taken at 9 a.m.
Altitude of Observatory, 415 ft.

Date.	Pressure, in Inches, at Sea-level and Standard Gravity.	Temperature (° F.) from Observations at 9 a.m.						Wind.
		In Screen.						Beaufort Scale.		Anemometer.	Rainfall, in Points (100 Points = 1 Inch).	Bright Sunshine: Hours and Tenths.	Weather (Symbols) at 9 a.m.
		At 9 a.m.			Maximum.	Minimum.		Direction.	Force.	Run in 24 Hours.
		Dry.	Wet.	Humidity.	Dry.	Dry.	Minimum on Grass.
1	..	..	29·984	65·7	60·8	74	71·2	57·2	50·7	142·6	NNW	2	68	29
2	..	..	29·824	59·0	58·0	94	65·7	58·4	58·0	119·0	N	4	313	38
3	..	..	29·650	62·4	57·9	75	66·1	53·2	51·8	133·1	NNE	6	254	..
4	..	..	29·684	63·3	55·2	57	66·3	56·0	50·1	132·0	NNW	5	394	..
5	..	..	29·779	60·2	50·2	44	65·0	55·8	49·6	138·9	NW	3	426	..
6	..	..	29·809	57·7	52·9	71	66·5	51·9	42·3	137·9	SSE	1	237	..
7	..	..	29·702	66·4	57·8	56	71·4	55·0	50·0	136·4	NW	1	191	..
8	..	..	30·087	57·9	53·0	71	65·4	53·2	48·3	141·0	SSE	1	176	..
9	..	..	29·966	61·0	56·7	75	66·4	54·8	51·2	131·8	NNW	4	153	..
10	..	..	30·195	60·0	55·8	75	70·6	55·0	52·7	130·0	SSE	2	209	..
11	..	..	30·215	63·4	59·5	79	67·7	56·9	52·8	152·1	NNW	2	113	..
12	..	..	30·248	60·1	58·8	89	67·8	59·0	58·3	148·9	NNW	1	223	..
13	..	..	30·177	61·6	59·1	86	69·0	59·0	58·2	134·1	E	1	183	..
14	..	..	29·883	64·3	58·9	71	71·2	58·2	54·8	141·0	NW	4	209	4
15	..	..	30·078	54·1	51·0	79	62·6	51·2	50·2	131·1	SE	3	209	1
16	..	..	29·900	62·3	56·9	70	64·7	51·1	45·8	129·0	N	5	165	7
17	..	..	29·934	51·7	48·1	75	57·4	48·1	48·2	127·2	SE	3	229	..
18	..	..	30·042	57·6	53·7	77	63·0	49·1	48·4	139·1	NW	4	208	1
19	..	..	30·040	60·0	54·8	70	63·8	58·0	51·7	138·3	SE	1	135	..
20	..	..	30·208	59·5	53·2	64	63·8	49·0	40·4	138·6	Calm	..	133	..
21	..	..	30·182	63·8	55·5	56	69·3	50·4	39·9	134·1	SE	2	49	..
22	..	..	29·918	63·0	59·2	79	73·4	53·0	46·9	136·8	ENE	1	72	..
23	..	..	29·922	66·7	60·9	70	70·8	54·6	48·3	136·3	NNW	3	118	..
24	..	..	29·870	66·8	60·4	67	71·1	56·6	51·5	129·7	N	2	253	..
25	..	..	29·713	62·4	56·5	67	68·8	57·8	52·7	124·0	NNW	6	251	..
26	..	..	29·771	68·3	60·7	62	74·9	56·2	48·2	132·7	NE	1	309	..
27	..	..	29·874	66·2	59·4	65	70·4	57·8	54·9	135·3	NNE	1	205	..
28	..	..	29·917	62·6	58·8	79	65·6	57·6	54·2	126·1	NNW	5	223	..
Means, &c.	..	29·949	61·7	56·6	71·3	67·5	54·8	50·4	134·9	..	2·6	204	80	234·5

Mean earth temperature at 1 ft., 65°; and at 3 ft., 63·9°. Number of rain days, 6.

DIRECTION OF WIND.

Gale (force 8 or more). Forces 4 to 7. Calm. N. N.E. E. S.E. S. S.W. W. N.W.
.. | 9 | 1 | 7½ | 2½ | 1 | 4½ | 1½ | .. | .. | 8

NOTE.—A fine dry summer month, with rainfall at Karori Reservoir, near Kelburn, 74 per cent. below the average. The driest February since 1921. Total bright sunshine, 234·5 hours, 61 per cent. of the possible, and no sunless days. Mean dew-point, 52·2°; and mean vapour pressure, 0·390 in.

SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, 1929.

February was a very dry month, the far southern portions of Otago and Southland being the only part of the Dominion to receive more than the average rainfall. Numbers of places in Canterbury recorded no rain at all. South of Dunedin rain fell on a fair number of days, but elsewhere almost the whole of the month’s precipitation occurred during the first five days and most of it on the 1st and 2nd.

Meteorologically, the month was a quiet one. There was a comparative absence of wind, the prevailing direction being south-westerly. The thundery conditions of the previous months were not maintained. Thunderstorms were, however, reported from a number of stations on the 3rd, and a hailstorm in the Oamaru district did much damage to the vineries at Kakanui. Temperatures and sunshine were above normal.

The continued dry weather caused pastures to become very parched during the latter half of the month, and milk yields have declined. Otherwise stock are in good condition, and the dry spell was advantageous to the extent that it checked the rank growth of feed produced by the heavy rains of the earlier months. Reports indicate fair or good yields from crops of all sorts, and harvesting and haymaking have been carried out under favourable conditions.

The strongly developed monsoonal conditions over Australia which characterized January were again in evidence in February. Pressures were low for most of the time in Northern Australia. These low pressures were counterbalanced by a stationary high-pressure system over the Tasman Sea, which was responsible for the prevalence of south-westerly winds over new Zealand and the dry weather which prevailed between the 6th and the 23rd. The area of low pressure extended eastward from tropical Australia during the third week of February, and a cyclone developed between Fiji and the New Hebrides. The centre passed close to the Kermadec Islands on the 21st, but the effect on New Zealand weather was slight.

PDF embedding disabled (Crown copyright)

View this page online at:

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1929, No 28

NZLII — NZ Gazette 1929, No 28

The General Assembly Library (on the right) was completed in 1899 and survived the 1907 fire. Now the oldest remaining original Parliament building, still used as the Parliamentary Library.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏗️ Meteorological Observations at Kelburn, Wellington for February 1929

Domain🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
KeywordsWeather, Temperature, Rainfall, Wind, Sunshine, Wellington

As the Gazette has been published for more than 185 years, copyright status depends on the publication date of each issue:

1840–1925 (Public Domain): Issues of the New Zealand Gazette and Provincial Gazettes from this period are in the public domain, as the term of Crown copyright (100 years) has expired. Mechanical reproductions (e.g., scanned PDFs) of these public domain documents do not attract new copyright.
1926–1999 (Crown Copyright): Issues from this period remain subject to Crown copyright. Usage of these issues in this project is "Fair Dealing" for research purposes and consistent with the spirit of the open-access principles championed by NZGOAL, ie, "The default licensing position under ... NZGOAL is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence ... [t]o the greatest extent possible, agencies should apply this licence to copyright material on their websites"
2000–Present (CC-BY 3.0 NZ): Gazette issues published on gazette.govt.nz are Crown copyright but are explicitly licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence (CC-BY 3.0 NZ). This project redistributes this content in accordance with those terms.

Nothing in this project is intended to infringe copyright, trademark law or personal privacy. Please contact me immediately if you have any concerns.

Third-Party Content

Where third-party content (e.g., notices submitted by external organisations) is identified within the Gazette, users should satisfy themselves regarding the copyright status of that specific content, as it may be subject to different ownership terms than the Gazette itself.

Sources and Attribution

NZ Gazette Sources

The primary sources for the issues of the NZ Gazette indexed by this project are:

New Zealand Gazette Archive, provided by Victoria University Library, copyright 2008 LexisNexis NZ Limited, Crown Copyright of New Zealand Gazette Office
- Issues from 1841-2008, including the New Munster, New Ulster, and Provincial Gazettes
New Zealand Gazettes by New Zealand Legal Information Institute (note: "NZLII is not the copyright owner in the source documents published on NZLII")
- Issues from 1913-1999
Gazette.govt.nz, Crown copyright / licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under CC-BY 3.0 NZ
- Issues from 2000-2017

Additional Sources

Wellington City Recollect have made available a comprehensive and excellent-quality scan of the Wellington Provincial Gazette which was used to fill in a number of issues missing from Victoria University's Gazette Archive; in particular, all 1856 issues, issues 22-34 for 1864 and issues 9-19 for 1870.
27 issues of The New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette (1840) were sourced from Papers Past (public domain).
Gazette Extraordinary No. 1 (1840), held at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Imaged by Luke Howison at the National Library reading rooms; PDF released into the public domain.

PDF Icon

The PDF PDF Icon was made by Good Ware, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Masthead

The logo in the header is an edited version of “Winning Coat of Arms Competition Entry, 1908” by Archives New Zealand, CC BY 2.0 (found via Wikipedia).

Who made this?

I'm Luke Howison, a freelance web developer with an interest in genealogy. I have created several websites for genealogical research, such as NZ Ancestor Search Helper.