Open AccessFARMING IN HAWKES BAY
Author(s) -
Robert H. Scott
Publication year - 1955
Publication title -
proceedings of the new zealand grassland association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-4577
pISSN - 0369-3902
DOI - 10.33584/jnzg.1955.17.1050
Subject(s) - bay , sunshine duration , geography , climatology , physical geography , oceanography , meteorology , archaeology , geology , precipitation
You are in sunny Hawkes Bay, the word "sunny" having become synonymous with the name Hawkes Bay, and there is justification for this when one examines the sunshine records for the district. This city of Napier enjoys an average of 2,420 hours of sunshine per annum which, if you look at it on a daily basis, is equivalent to just over 6% hours of sunshine per day for every day of the year. Lying to the south-east of the North Island as it does, and protected from the prevailing westerly winds by the Ruahine Ranges on its western boundary, and to a more limited extent from the southerly winds by the hills to the 'south, it escapes much of the cloud that districts to the west of the ranges experience.