Kelburn site was brand-new in 1928, so all temp. records would be from the places you listed above. The first 3 are all in the Thorndon area, and Buckle St is in Mt Cook (goes past the old Museum).janewaystv wrote:It was in the book in handwritten form - however I asked my grandmother this morning she said my grandfather got them from someone at NIWA in 1995 (with updated data to end 2000) - this discovery throws a new light on "obtaining data for payment" because my grandmother said he got them for "free", and he should have the orginial sheets (as given to him by NIWA) somewhere in the box, so I delved (deeper this timeRWood wrote:Where did you get the Wellington rainfall data from originally?) in the box and found them in a plastic sheet hidden in a scrap-book which I hadnt looked at before - wow - I couldnt believe it because it contains all data for AKL, WGT, CHC, DUD and IVC dating back to when they first started measuring at those sites. They come in printed form (with punch-holes on either side), my grandfather didnt want to paste them in the book and couldnt use a PC so he wrote them (Not all though) down on sheets of lined A4 papers (Must have taken him a long time !). Judging by what was entered in the book - it seems that my grandfather was mainly focused on rainfall and sunshine stats.
Looked at the Wellington rainfall data (Orginial sheets) - it all comes under the heading "Kelburn" from 1862 onwards, however still no mention of Mt Cook and Thorndon sites, so I'll take your word for it(Note the station number for Kelburn is E14272).
With Wellington's mean air temp stats. - very interesting because I have them in the orginial printed sheets from NIWA (My grandfather didnt write them down) and I didnt even know about them until this morning when I found as mentioned above - an unexpected bonusso the sites are as following:-
Knowles Ob 1862 - 1868
Bowen St 1868 - 1869
Bolton Street Cemetery 1869 - 1906
Buckle Street 1906 - 1912
Thorndon 1912 - 1927
Kelburn 1928 - current
In regards to prior conversations about "WGT Rainfall Data and Sites" - Would I be right in assuming that "Buckle Street" is also referred to as Mt Cook" ? as the year mentioned match those of Mt Cook.
With extreme T-max & T-min air temps they are however all under Kelburn from 1869 to end 1998.
Now Im getting a bit confused (Again!) because as you said before all records post 1928 are from Kelburn and pre- 1928 from Mt Cook and Thorndon. Looks like we'll have to trash out some of the "sites & years " issues in good faith.
Now for rainfall I'm not sure where the pre-1906 records were from, probably the same as the temperature ones. My view is that for temp. and rainfall purposes all the pre-Kelburn sites would be pretty similar.
What I can do is go to our library and look the old reports in "Statistics of New Zealand" whose meteorological section had a few pages per year with summary tables from the handful of locations operating in those days.
(From 1928, the information was moved to the newly-created NZ Met. Misc. Pub. 109 [Meteorological Observations for 19xx] that you've seen me refer to in some posts.)
