STOEMY WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 13

STOEMY WEATHER

AND HEAVY RAINS

According to the "weather forecast issued at noon: today New Zealand is Oii the eve of experiencing a spell of stormy and wet weather. Winds will be southerly to north-easterly in direction north of • Canterbury, but will gradually veer to tho south-west. Winds will bo strong and galo forco will be reached in places, especially in the northern half of tho North Island. South of Canterbury southerly winds ihay be expected. Dull and misty weather with almost general rain may ;be expected, conditions being stormy ,with heavy falls of rain from Nelson and Marlborough northward. Some ;flopaing 6f rivers may bo expected in the northern half of the North Island. (Temperatures' will be becoming cooler: ;, Tho cause of tho trouble is the doyelopment of a deep cyclonic depression which was centred this morning hoar Cape Maria van Diemeh, where, at 9 a.m. today ; barometers wore as Jow as 29.18 inches. Pressure, however^ is still high to tho cast of the Dominion and is rising again over the •eastern part of Australia. Yesterday's weather was fine, although cloudy in most parts, but since last night rain has fallen'over the whole of tho Auckland Province, where1 there have been some heavy downpours, and has extended to many other parts of tho North Island as well as to the-west-ern and southern districts of tho South Island. Noith-eaatcrly winds have and over the northern half of the North Island these have ■increased in force, gales being reported in several places this morning. }; A strong north-easterly wind prevailed in Auckland yesterday, the weather being dull and threatening. It -has been raining there since last night. . Wellington's weather was cgain fine and pleasant, 7.2 hours of. bright sunshine being recorded. Tho wind was 'a moderate ono from the north. ,' Christchurch had a mild and sunny day with a north-easterly wind. Last uight was dull and warm. ;-, Although the weather in Dunedin yesterday was dull, it was pleasant, the wind being a light one from the aorik-gasfe ' '.--:■