STORMY WEATHER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 626, 4 October 1909, Page 5

STORMY WEATHER.

e , • with- which . came hejivy..,rain' Bqnalls, prevailed''in"'Wellington yesterday,.; and.-..was v at. its ; height; during the' mOrning.bours.- - The disturbance was predicted: by. the, Meteorological .Office report on. Satur-: day., and "Mr.. .Bates issued' a'warning, to thei southern lighthouses.. It Ms expected" that the weather,will continue stormy for a.iew.days,, anjd that-squalls will be particularly j "severe' in Cook Strait:,and on-:the'-Wost Coast.;. .•• • : ' J ■;..■;■ "'/^•'•■.'.'■;f6ebcast.--' : •■ '■y----'^ -. ; ■ Ap^eri'onsive-;area-.0f, : low pressure' from '"the' westward-is now:spreading ovor the' country,' anjd.will.probably. causo.very unsettled-weather' everywhere during the .early part, of ;this ,weoBV At's p.m.- a moderate W.S.'W.- 'gale was re-' pprted at. the ..Bluff,. and;, the .baronibter.-' hadfallen nearly half an inch since 9 a.ni." yesterday......Tho. winds, have, also .changed- to tho:' northward over the North Island, and aro now-' -freshening, everywhere.- v r - A"N.W. gale, with''; heavy smalls, has prevailed in Wellington' since'midnight. The barometer will probr.bly' rise r slightly in the'6outhand-fall again;-'with-heavy' N. and' W.. winds .and- rain- squalls,'especially on :the West, Coast and in Cook Strait. ■ There- will:be freshes, in the rivers and heavy ;seas.on the coast. .: -.■,:".-■.■ .'■ '« 'j "-^v''■',■.'.• ■■■'; D'CrBATES.;'; bunday, October ,3.