WARM AND CALM.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20776, 9 February 1933, Page 15

WARM AND CALM.

V IN JANUARY. ;, J- "jet l|f ■ 1 '* ' tr ' OF dominion I CONDITIONS. ajjr . UMCUIIOI MLSCBAM) WELLINGTON, February 8. Taf jjoaiiaioa Meteorologist lias re,j ti* following report, on the ' for January, 1933:--Th« we» t3ker uril, B the montll ,va8 > on warm and sunny, with little « Though rainfall was below nor : S" » B»t places, there was much «■" Jiumid weather. The continual WU» of win in tho Xortll Island has una reduction of milk yields, but f J eenerallv is reported to bo in very | Audition, and in most districts f jj(!£ - a abundant feed. Much hay and ' Trir have been laid by for the win"fields promise to be about but root crops are rather ttbl-' S oot ' w heat crop is likely if jn-i other troubles are avoided. Rainfall. &$ a rule, the rainfall was considcr]ens than the average, but the Sits were very variable owing to the ffiSl 1 "' M> ture of the rainS that did yy. In tho South Island there was than the normal in most of Nelson ® I Wcstland and much of the high ZvLtrv of tho interior. The same is L» fl f the north-eastern portion of the li&rt 3a Island. In Taranaki, inland disfared better than the coast. Tn 'STjianAwatu the distribution was te,, y' BOme i )laees bcin s ver y dl ' 7 *iile i« others good rains were reThe lack of rain is being felt r t acutely, perhaps, in parts of the ffcUuto country. At. the end of the gggth there seemed a likelihood of the iffconditions in Marlborough and Eivke'J Bay being relieved. Thunderwere rather numerouß, and sevtT(l eases of severe hailstorms were MMrrted. A. tornado in the Te Awa"Su district on the 10th was rcspon- ' for tome damage. Demperatnres were everywhere above tot normal for the month, many places tgriag tho warmest January since am. Tho average was usually exiijgj bv about one degree Fahrenheit. sonic very warm days in <im oiiu'lle and at tho end of the month, juibbera of places in eastern districts "fcftic Houth Island recording over 90 MBNS F. , Jjj jnitfi of much humid weather, more jassijine than usual was experienced. Of tho returns to hand, Nelson with flHk.9 and Blenheim with 28-1.0 hours '{iffliib'-'d the highest totals. Pressure Systems. In# outstanding feature of the charts for the month, as m the mrloui one, baa been tho general low Ereasnro and the disturbed conditions 1 jjwrftilirig in the tropins. This had a ¥itWat influence on the weather in the !■ "iPMiininn and produced unhappy _ coniPpttow for the forecaster sine© it re■lialted in an interference with the normal eastward movement of disturb- ■%»«*«„ For example, a moderate west'M(f depression passed eastward January 2, and on the fol : §kwing day an anti-cyclone comSsen.eed to follow it on to the Dominion, -ffjsis vronld normally have meant that hs nootherly wind-, which had set in roald have gradually died down and rcered to warm northerlies as the centre Imti -cyclone passed, but at this tropical cyclone which was end during tho night of January o Maunganui, near Larotonga, sing through the Paciiic Isl turn north to Fiji to south _of c Island?. The effect of thi3 is to cause the pressure to rer to the east of New Zealand, lieriy winds to continue. Next, ;ropieal cyclone, which was first »f jn January 8 moved wly almost in due soutlirection, and it was not anuary 17 that it finally and disappeared when centred East Cape. For some days it dull, unsettled weather in the part of the Dominion with lraim, among which were many Us. Elsewhere, although Mia -re was very sultry and humid, n fell. The westerly depreste, -in the meantime, held uj>. .ry 17, however, a deep westerly : n did move on to the SouthTa'm was successively rejuventat it was not until January 2j inally moved away. Muggy with rains of irregular characaued throughout this period, aallv slow moving anti-cyclone i k the place of the depression, «00l weather prevailed at mo3t til January 28, when a fresh and i depression commenced to afWeather in a series of wavea. id humid conditions again set I the result of heavy ramß on 30 and 31 there was severe In northern Nelson and aad in Westland. In the Kai ; 0 incliea fell in less than two i