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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1992
OVER 170 OF THE BARGE CREW WERE RESCUED. SIXTEEN PEOPLE WERE FOUND DEAD AND ANOTHER SIX WERE REPORTED MISSING.
THE MONTHLY RAINFALL OF 302.3 MILLIMETRES WAS 23 PER CENT BELOW THE AUGUST NORMAL OF 391.4 MILLIMETRES.
SEPTEMBER WAS RELATIVELY WARM AND DRY.
THE MONTHLY MEAN THE MONTHLY MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 25.8 DEGREES CELSIUS WERE RESPECTIVELY THE FOURTH
EIGHTH HIGHEST EVER FOR SEPTEMBER.
TEMPERATURE OF 28. 1 DEGREES CELSIUS AND
AND
THE MONTHLY RAINFALL OF 178.7 MILLIMETRES FELL SHORT OF THE SEPTEMBER NORMAL OF 299.7 MILLIMETRES BY 40 PER CENT.
OVER HALF OF THE MONTH'S RAIN OCCURRED ON THE NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER 14 IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ARRIVAL OF A FRESH EASTERLY AIRSTREAM.
IN CONTRAST, THE TWO PASSING TROPICAL CYCLONES, JOEL WERE MOST DISAPPOINTING FOR BRINGING RELATIVELY LITTLE RAIN.
AND NAT,
HUMIDITY,
IN SPITE OF LONG HOURS OF SUNSHINE AND BELOW-NORMAL OCTOBER WAS A MONTH OF ABUNDANT RAIN. THE MONTHLY RAINFALL OF 294. 3 MILLIMETRES WAS MORE THAN DOUBLE THE OCTOBER NORMAL OF 144.8 MILLIMETRES AND WAS THE 10TH HIGHEST ON RECORD FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER.
WITH THE ARRIVAL OF
14,
AN EASTERLY AIRSTREAM ON OCTOBER NEARLY ALL RAIN OF THE MONTH FELL WITHIN THE 4-DAY PERIOD OF OCTOBER 14 TO 17.
SEVERAL INCIDENTS OF FLOODING WERE REPORTED OVER THE TERRITORY BUT NO SERIOUS DAMAGE WAS INCURRED.
THE LOWEST RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 21 PER CENT ON OCTOBER 27 AND 28 EQUALLED THE RECORD PREVIOUSLY SET FOR OCTOBER IN 1968 AND 1973.
WEATHER IN NOVEMBER WAS DOMINATED BY A SERIES OF CONTINENTAL ANTICYCLONES AND THE ASSOCIATED NORTHEAST MONSOON.
AS A RESULT, THE MONTHLY MEAN PRESSURE OF 1,019.5 HECTOPASCALS WAS THE EIGHTH HIGHEST ON RECORD FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER.
IT WAS ON THE WHOLE COOLER AND DRIER THAN NORMAL. THE MONTHLY RAINFALL OF 2.7 MILLIMETRES WAS A MERE 8 PER CENT OF THE NOVEMBER NORMAL OF 35.1 MILLIMETRES.
IT WAS COMPARATIVELY WARM IN DECEMBER UNTIL THE ARRIVAL OF AN EXCEPTIONALLY INTENSE SURGE OF THE WINTER MONSOON IN THE AFTERNOON OF DECEMBER 27.
IN THE AFTERNOON OF DECEMBER 28, THE RO TEMPERATURE OF 4.6 DEGREES CELSIUS, WHICH TEMPERATURE RECORDED SINCE DECEMBER 1975.
RECORDED A MINIMUM WAS THE LOWEST
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