THE WEATHER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 January 1909, Page 5

THE WEATHER.

■'": ;FOREOAST,BY ffll. : WRA&GE.' : u; : "ADVENT OF THE "WARD" STORM; ; : During the course of his lecture on "The Romance: of the. Atmosphere" last; night, Mr.''Clement Wraggo stated that, a'storm which' Would affect the southern portion of Now!: Zealand was imminent. 'He bad named the. ' disturbance, the. Ward:, storm, - and wouldn't'it' make things/hum. "It would," he added, " make hats, fly off at ; the rate of knots."/ ;'•- :'-;'; ■' -..'.''• • : ":- : i,; ':-'■ / ; -; '■■"

. Interviewed by' a Dominion reporter; subsequently, Mr. Wraggo said that he :had called the ' approaching ./disturbance' "the; Ward storni" ,in honour of ■ the Prime Minister. His.forecast based merely on isolated observations''taken at Wellington. In not hav-: ing reports from other parts of New Zealand, he/was, of; couise, labouring . under a great disadvantage. .Captain/Edwin, who was in possession of such roports, : was ih.a,far better position than he was to form; an accurate conclusion ; with regard 'to the, conditions. 'There : was a lowf-press'ure 'system' eoming_up from :the neighbourhood'of. the Tasman Sea; ;It; would more or less affect the'weather on'the' West. Coast of ■ New: Zealand. ';:In;tho southern portion, of/'tho Dominion; especially in the;'south-west,: there might be expected strong winds from between west and £outh-.we'stj-with reugh seas and rain. 1 '...: '-,