YESTERDAY’S WEATHER

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 153, 25 March 1937, Page 10

YESTERDAY’S WEATHER

Wellington.— The weather was fair and mild, although mostly cloudy with a strong and squally north-westerly wind ail day. Minimum temperature on Tuesday night, 5>7.7deg.; maximum yesterday, 64.8 deg.; at 3.30 p.m., 63.8 cleg. Rainfall at “The Dominion” building for 24 hours ended midnight, 1.55 in. Total for the month, 2.4 in.; for the year, 9.68 in. Palmerston North.—Dull and overcast with heavy morning showers ; there was a light north-westerly wind. Masterton. — Fine and warm; passing clouds; no wind. Wanganui.— <eavy rain showers in tlie morning; later fine and sunny; light westerly breeze. Napier and Hastings.— Blue skies, scattered cloud and a light westerly breeze -in the morning, but a strong westerlj’ began to blow toward midday. Warm temperatures. Wa.ipukurau. — Another exceedingly hot day. Maximum temperature, 80 deg., dropping by 7.30 p.m. to 68dgg. Auckland. — Fine and warm, although tlie skv was clouded. A light northerly wind blew during the day and the baro. meter began to fall slightly early iu the a fternoon. Christchurch.— Fine and sunny. The wind was light from the south-west iu tlie morning, and from the east iu the afternoon. The maximum temperature was 71.4dcg. The barometer fell during the day and registered 29.72 in. at 5 p.m. Dunedin.— Very dense fog hung over tile city in tlie morning, but dispersed later in the day. The sun shone brightly for a fairly long period, and the temperature readied a maximum of 70deg. The barometer, after falling to 29.50 in.. was steady.