RAIN AND FOG.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 221, 19 September 1927, Page 9

RAIN AND FOG.

WEEK-END WEATHER.

FALL OF 1.06 INCHES

Auckland was under an almost continuous fall of rain for the twenty-four hours from noon 011 Saturday until the same hour yesterday, while a dense fog descended over the city and suburbs for several hours yesterday afternoon.

The fog was one of the most sever© experienced for some time, and its effects were most felt on the harbour, wliei the ferry steamers maintained their time-tables only with the greatest difficulty. Out in the Hauraki Gulf the fog was equally severe, the Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Caroline, inward bound from the South, being hove-to for several hours. Although the fog cleared from the harbour and from part of the western suburbs before 9 o'clock, it hung over the Remuera and other districts until a considerably later hour.

The rainfall from noon on Saturday until the same hour yesterday, as registered at the Albert Park observatory, amounted to 1.00 inches, and the fall for the month to date is now 2.64 inches.

CONDITIONS AT MERCER. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) MERCER, this day. Although humid and threatening, the weather over the week-end was mainly fine. The flood is subsiding rapidly, the river being 18in below the level ruling last week. There is every prospect of the flood water disappearing, as only exceptionally heavy rain is now likely to affect the river.