Rainfall
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1916 Rainfall at Taurapa
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Total No. of Days
August No record 2 12 23 3 .40 4
September 20 17 6 2 2 5 21 32 35 1.40 9
October 46 49 7 4 39 13 87 30 44 1 20 26 30 48 4.44 14
November 10 14 26 9 26 42 4 9 20 11 17 1.88 11
December 12 5 50 1.09 66 2 1 1 20 5 2 2.73 11
1917 Rainfall at Taurapa
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Total No. of Days
January 9 1.96 2.30 2 1.86 7 5 13 2 8 6.58 10
February 36 15 1 49 67 11 1.61 7 4 61 4 25 2 4.43 13
March 34 7 3 17 6 2 9 3 4 3 5 6 2 9 1.10 14
April 44 7 46 1 2 1.08 9 13 3 16 3 3 1 2 7 2 2.67 16
May 14 71 1.16 2 10 38 2.95 28 24 26 2 8 6.34 12
June 87 7.08 4.00 22 1 36 26 24 78 13.82 9
July 2 5 27 3 47 84 10 39 9 7 32 3 25 1 27 17 3.38 16
August 3 85 2.05 1.10 15 20 53 38 15 73 27 4 3 8 5 4 3 2 6.73 18
September 9 40 11 25 42 30 3 72 26 3 9 2.70 11
October 23 24 1 16 2 43 12 31 18 10 18 1.98 11
November 1 21 5 18 6 77 2.32 37 11 4.08 9
December 7 2 13 2 1 3 1 52 1.16 9 8 82 1.34 1 4.31 14
Total for year 58.12 153
Wettest Day June 11th 7.08
1918 Rainfall at Taurapa
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Total No. of Days
January 7 2 30 5 30 1.63 1.10 35 94 65 6 43 5.90 12
February 4 7 10 1.03 11 10 5 49 18 2.17 9
March 9 20 34 67 64 25 1 50 10 2 2 10 7 2 3 1.21 2 5 13 4.47 19
April 5 60 6 8 7 9 24 3 10 18 29 2 11 1.92 13
May 3 1 3 2 9 3 1 1 15 3 10 13 37 55 2 1.58 15
June 4 4 5 10 14 28 2 4 1 4 6 1 4 11 .98 14
July 1 2.95 1.15 32 10 2 21 3 16 4 17 5 24 1 5.46 14
August 16 11 13 4 23 11 2.12 55 36 17 4 1 4.03 12
September 5 15 49 32 6 5 1 11 15 1 4 2 19 1.65 13
October 13 12 48 11 12 10 5 7 1.81 1.04 7 19 6 22 4.57 14
November 1 21 19 1 19 32 7 9 1.77 7 9 21 3.23 12
December 91 1 70 1 2.84 3 9 3 1 26 5 4.94 11
Total for Year 40.90 158
Wettest Day July 2nd 2.95
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Description
Daily recording of rainfall at Taurapa Station, Ocean Beach, from 16 August 1916 until 31 December 1941. The station was short-staffed during the Second World War and the readings stopped being recorded. Rainfall recorded is in inches.
This record contains sample pages from the original, hand-written rainfall log book.
The original log book contains 26 pages of recordings.
The full copy of the log book is available at the Hawke’s Bay Knowledge Bank for those interested in reading more.
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Format of the original
Handwritten log bookDate published
1916 - 1941Accession number
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