Meteorologist’s Wife Questions Forecast

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30856, 15 September 1965, Page 2

Meteorologist’s Wife Questions Forecast

Not even a meteorologist can predict the weather accurately enough to satisfy his wife, according to Massachusetts-born Mrs Margurite Lally.

Mrs Lally decided to go shopping yesterday morning and asked her husband if the weather would be as warm as it was on Monday. He assured her that it would be, so Mrs Lally set off wearing a light suit and found that conditions were too cool.

Back home she told \ her husband she had nearly frozen and asked how he arrived : at his forecast. “I got it from the paper this morning,” was the j reply. Mr and Mrs Lally and their three children recently arrived in Christchurch where Mr Lally, a meteorologist with the National Centre of Atmospherical Research in Boulder, Colorado, will collect data on weather conditions in the southern hemisphere. StilL Mrs Lally is not complaining about New Zealand weather, especially as it was her decision that brought the family to Christchurch. “About a year ago my husband came home and said we

would be going to the southern hemisphere but he could not decide between Australia and New Zealand.

‘1 looked up encyclopaedias j and thought New Zealand! would be better because the! children would get a good edu- j cation and have plenty of op-1 portunity to travel. He de-i eided on Christchurch,” she • said. SEARCH FOR MUSTARD During the year the family will be in Christchurch, Mrs ■ Lally is determined to become a good New Zealander. At the I moment, however, she said she was feeling like a spoilt American, mainly because New Zealand did not have the variety of foods available in America. It took her so long to find made-up mustard and mayonnaise, for example, that she asked her neighbours what they did and was told they made up their own. “I understand why, because the price of mustard and mayonnaise is so high. I think New Zealanders are so thrifty,” she laughed. She is thinking seriously of adopting one New Zealand ! tradition. “I think I’ll try preserving later on,” she said. FULL OF PRAISE Although they have been in the country just a fortnight Mr? Lally was full of praise for the water, the friendliness of the people and women radio announcers. “The water here is delicious. ; I don’t think New Zealanders j drink enough of it though. We ; have been listening to the ! radio a lot and the music pro- • grammes are wonderful. It’s such a pleasure to listen to I the girl announcers,’’ she ; said.