Te Ika a Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants
Appendix E
Appendix E.
Month. | Mean Temperature. | Rain. | |||||||||||
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England. | Corresponding with the following in New Zealand. | London. | Auckland. | Wellington. | Otago. | London. | Auckland. | Wellington. | Otago. | ||||
Latitude. N. 51.30 | Latitude. S. 36.51 | Latitude. S. 41.17 | Latitude. S. 45.54. | Days | Inch. | Days | Inch. | Days | Inch. | Days | Inch. | ||
January | July | 36.3 | 49.5 | 48.7 | 44 | 23 | 17 | 3.8 | 16 | ||||
February | August | 39.6 | 54.3 | 51.2 | 44 | 10 | 14 | 4.5 | 11 | ||||
March | September | 42 | 54.8 | 53.5 | 50 | 18 | 14 | 4.5 | 14 | ||||
April | October | 47.6 | 58.6 | 59.2 | 57 | 13 | 16 | 2.3 | 13 | ||||
May | November | 55.4 | 58.8 | 60.5 | 63 | 14 | 14 | 2.9 | 10 | ||||
June | December | 59.3 | 64.6 | 64.7 | 63 | 2 | 15 | 5.5 | 8 | ||||
July | January | 62.9 | 69.3 | 66.4 | 66 | 10 | 5 | 1.6 | 10 | ||||
August | February | 62.9 | 67 | 64.8 | 64 | 8 | * | 9 | 2 | 11 | |||
September | March | 57.7 | 65.1 | 62.5 | 58 | 10 | * | 12 | 2.3 | 14 | |||
October | April | 50.8 | 59 | 63.5 | 54 | 9 | 9 | 1.8 | 9 | ||||
November | May | 42.4 | 56.1 | 51.8 | 47 | 20 | 11 | 3.7 | 16 | ||||
December | June | 38.7 | 52.1 | 51.3 | 45 | 21 | 18 | 4.1 | 14 | ||||
Annual mean | 49.6 | 59.1 | 58.2 | 54.7 | 178 | 24 | 158 | 46 | 154 | 46 | 146 |
In Rome, 36 inches of rain fall annually; in Naples, 87; in Quebec, 40; in New York, 55; in Dublin, 31; in Plymouth, 40. (This Table was taken from Capt. Richardson's “New Zealand.”)
* The entries for these two months are taken from a mean of the two adjoining columns.