BRACING WEATHER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 137, 12 June 1922, Page 2

BRACING WEATHER.

I • j SUNNY DAYS, COLD NIGHTS. I j A (.ALE IX THE 01-TlXl!. I ! Despite the beautifully lino weather . I experienced in Auckland during the past ;j few days, indications have been for [changed conditions, and the weather • ijrlass still points to ""stormy."* There : luus been a heavy .sea running out.-ide .! liie harbour, a> witness the fact that .excursionists to the \\Jilt«hire wreck on r Sunday hud an unpleasant trip, many .j being seasick, and Ist wt nipht a fairly ■j heavy .-inf was breaking on tlie beaches jat Takapuna. There ha- been a lieavv I g;ile somewhere which has apparently been broken or diverted by Cape I'olville. us very frequently happens when the ' wind is from the south-east. The weather continues very cold, even for this season of the year, but with an almost entire absence of wind and with brijrht sunshine during the daytime conditions are ideal. The temperature at Auckland in the i-limle at 0 a.m. wa.■iC<: yesterday the maximum was .!."> and the minimum 40. The fiarometer. which recorded :>0.40 inches (,n Tuesday last, bad fallen to 30.20 inches on Friday and at !> a.m. to-day showed at 4(1. The- temperatures recorded in th o I South at !» a.m. to-day jrave Taupo 4:1. j ">ll. Wellington 4S. Cliristchurch 31. Dunedin 3.",. and Hliiff :t(i. ■ 'Masters of vessels arriving from the 1 eastward report easterly and .-outh- ! easterly pile- off the Xew Zealand coast, accompanied by rough seas and hoavv ra : n si|iialls. The Otarania. which arrived on Saturday, experienced' one day of rougrh weather lust before I reaching port, ami the West. Cherow «- a s •in a storm for the last two days, but ! the weather was pleasant in the vicinity of the (iulf. when she steamed into Auckland this niorninjr.