VARIABLE SPRING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 107, 6 May 1913, Page 9

VARIABLE SPRING.

New York weather lately has been variable m the extreme. To-day is bright and clear with a temperature of about 10 decrees, but yesterday was a succession of vmd thunder storms with drenchin? ram and severe squalls of wind. The rtay before was about the. same, but much warmer, and the thermometer above 60 degrees. Monday and Tuesday were very close and cloudy, almost sultry, and the barometer very changeable." To the north-east, as far as Halifax, Nova Scotia, the temperature on Sunday wis much warmer, the mercnry reaching 70 degrees. These records are of interest as indicating the effects here of the atmospheric disturbance in the middle West. This had been preceded here lait week by abnormally hisch barometer, the reading reaching 30.93 inches, showing that the advance of the disturbance from the south-west wee pushing the-atmos-phere before it. The effect of the high ■barometer "wag perceptible in housekeeping, water for .breakfast requiring several degrees more heat than usual to boil, fires burning with less ease than at other times, and the sick in hospital showing strange variations'.of temperature records.