YESTERDAY'S DOWNPOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 13 January 1926, Page 8

YESTERDAY'S DOWNPOUR.

AN INCH IN FORTY MINUTES. BAROMETER SINCE RISING. Over an inch of rain fell in the city in forty minutes yesterday, morning, according to the official observations taken at Albert Park at 9 a.m. to-day by Captain D. McLeay (Government Observer). The rain gauge showed a fall of 1.06 in during the sudden downpour. Many country districts and suburbs of Auckland were less fortunate than the city and experienced only light rain. Queen Street appeared to be the centre of the thunder disturbance, and the flooded street and pavements were very convincing evidence of the torrential nature of the downpour. Since midday yesterday scarcely any rain has fallen in Auckland', though there has been a continuance of humid conditions and occasional ominous-looking cloud banks in the north. The wind, •wjiich was from * the north-east yesterday morning, was north-west to-day, and the barometer .had risen from 29.754f1n to 29.877 in for the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. to-day. DELUGE AT WAIHI. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) WAIHI, this day. At about one o'clock yesterday, Waihi was visited by a thunderstorm from the northeast, accompanied by exceptionally heavy rain, clearing about three o'clock. So heavy was the rain that at first a flood was feared. There was little wind and this died out altogether later.