Wellington snowfall Sept 1926
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Wellington snowfall Sept 1926
Stumbled across this on social media. I wonder how the rest of the country fared in that event? Maybe it was a SSW year?
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Re: Wellington snowfall Sept 1926
Link to the related news article of the day. Fascinating read
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newsp ... pe=ARTICLE
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newsp ... pe=ARTICLE
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Re: Wellington snowfall Sept 1926
Would have been on the 16/09/1926, Christchurch had a maximum of 7.0C that day...
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Re: Wellington snowfall Sept 1926
Gotta love the style of writing back then, 'pleasurabic anticipations of it pastimes'
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Re: Wellington snowfall Sept 1926
I've just looked into the climate database archives at the oldest weather station in Antarctica, Base Orcadas. The coldest mean temperature it has recorded since the early 1900's until today was the years 1926 and 1927. It must of been a powerful polar vortex in those years 
Whether a SSW had anything to do with that event in Wellington will remain a mystery though, as weather balloon data only goes back to the late 1950's.
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Re: Wellington snowfall Sept 1926
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newsp ... 60917.2.99
Note that the snow fell to sea-level on both sides of the South Island.
Note that the snow fell to sea-level on both sides of the South Island.
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Re: Wellington snowfall Sept 1926
When I was in my early 20's I worked for a farmer who would have been in his 60's at the time, I remember him telling me that his family farmed on D'Urville Island and that they had a snowfall that fall around the homestead which was close to sea level. Going by his age that would have been about the same time.