METEOROLOGICAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 77, 31 March 1908, Page 6

METEOROLOGICAL

WELLINGTON'S WEATHER. THE- SUM. Rose to day — 6h 4m a.m. ; sets 5h 46m p.m. Rises to-morrow — 6h 5m a.m. ; seto 5h 44m p.m. BRIGHT SUNSHINE. Yesterday — Morning:, Oh 20m ; afternoon, Oh 32m ; total, In, 2m. THE MOON. (Calculated for New Zealand iUean Time). D. H. M. New Jloon .. .. • „ 1 4 32 p.m. First Quarter 9 4 1 a.m. Full Moou .* 17 4 25 a.m. Last Quarter 24 6 37 a.m. TEJirERATURE IN SHADE. Yesterday — Maximum, Wdcg. ; minimum, 59deg. ; mean, 61dep. To-day, 1 p.m. — 67deg. RAINFALL. For the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. to-day— NilTotal to date during month — 4.87 in. WIND. Average velocity for the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. to-day — 24 miles an hour. BAROMETER. Yesterday— l p.m., 29.49 ; 5 p.m., 29.64. To-day— 9.3o a.m., 29.78; 1 p.m., 29.70. NEW ZEALAND. THE PAST 24 HOURS. Slowly rising barometer everywhere, with modwnt? to etrong vends, principally from the wedbmu-d. Rain as reported from Raglan and Kawhia. and ehowerv wenther from Cambridge nntf New Plymouth, Taihape, Bluff, and the west coast of the South Island, but the weather elsewhere has been generally fine. TO-DAY'S AVEATHER. MOM OBSERfMTIOKS TAKEN AT 9 A.M

Wind. — L, light ; or, oreeze ; i b, fresh breeze ; mg, imderate gale ; g, whole or heavy gale, v, gule of exceptional severity. Weather.— B, bluo sky, be the atmosphere clear or heavy; C, clouds, pissing clouds; I), drizzling ram; 11,I 1 , foggy; U, gloomy, dark wcutber; U, hull ; L, lightning; M, misty; O, overcast, the whole sky cuveied with thick clouds; r, paesing ahowera; Q, squally; H, ram, continued rain; a>, snow; T, thunder; V, ugly, threatening aDueaiauoe. THE ETTUKK. At 9 a.m. the following forecast was issued for Hie «üb«equent 24 hours: — Wind.— Westerly, moderate to strong at all places northward of East Oipe, Taupo, and Kawhift ; «troug to gale from , some direction after from 12 to 16 hours at all other places. Barometer. — Little movement northward of Ea»t Cape, Taupo, and: Kawhia ; fall everywhere else. Sea. — Heavy on all western coast and on east coast between Oißtlepoint and Lyttelton; consideiable thence southward, but moderate northward of East Cape. Tides. — High on. vrest coast of North Island and on both coasts of South Island ; moderate all other ports. Rain is probable in the South Island and after 16 hours in the North Island southward of Uapier and New Plymouth. Warming signal for northerly gale is exhibited at Capea Campbell, Foulwind, and Farewell Spit, and for westerly gale at Nugget Point, and will be shown at Ea6t Cape after euuris: B. A. EDWIN.

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