NORTH-EAST WEATHER.

Auckland Star, Volume 304, Issue 304, 23 December 1926, Page 8

NORTH-EAST WEATHER.

« A DAMP, CLAMMY DAY. OUTLOOK FOR CHRISTMAS. There have been many grumbles at the weather of late, and certainly it has been decidedly unseasonable. However, it is not entirely without precedent, for | old hands well remember one Christmas j Day when fires were general in Auckland. j the weather being something like that we i experienced a couple of Weeks back, when a cold snap set in from the south. j For several days past the wind has | been most erratic, and when it gradually . worked round to the south-east old hands I knew what was coming. " Beware of the j wind against the sun, for back again it I will surely run," says the Old rhyme, 1 : and once more it proved true. Settling i j down yesterday into the north-east, that i damp quarter which always during the summer brings the steamy, mu<*gy weather which is so trying to city dwellers, the wind brought the rain this morning, a disagreeable drizzling rain which, with the thermometer in the hi^h sixties, always means that "clammy feel," which is the penalty for living in a semi-tropical climate." At the present time there is every indication that the weather will not "et any worse—and that is becoming a matter of serious importance to the prospec- . tire holiday makers—for the glass is a { good deal steadier than it has been for • i tn^Tr l^ 3 ' and lt is a tit over , dU. the weather prophets opine that before Christmas Day there Will be a j decided improvement, and as We can i generally expect a decent interval > I betwoon one north-easter and the next ; bad spell, the prospects for Christmas and Boxing Day need not be regarded as affording no hope for outdoor enjoyment