METEOROLOGICAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 112, 7 November 1908, Page 4

METEOROLOGICAL.

♦ WELLINGTON'S WEATHER. THE SUN. Rose to-day—4h 31m a.m.; sets Ch 38m p.m. Iliseb to-monow—4h 2t>m a.m.; sets 6h 40m p.m. BRIGHT SUNSHINE. Yesterday—Moiniug, 3h 35m; afternoon, 2h 35m; total, 6h 10m. THE MOON. (Calculated for New Zealand Mean Time). D. H. M. First quarter 2 1 46 a.m. Full moon 8 7 28 p.m. Last quarter 16 li 11 a.m. New moon 2i 0 23 a.m. TEMPERATURE IN SHADE. Yesterday — Maximum, 60deg.; minimum, 43deg.; mean, 52deg. RAINFALL. * For the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. to-day-Total to date during month—o.2lin. WIND. Average velocity for the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. to-day— C miles per hour. BAROMETER. Yesterday—s p.m., 29.65.-To-day—9.3o a.m., 20.80. NEW ZEALAND. THE PAST 24 HOURS. Rising barometer everywhere until about 10 p.m., and sinec then it has fallen slowly in the southernmost districts. Heavy gales from the south-west have been experienced on the west coast of the Soutli Island, and strong winds from between north-west and south-west in most other parts of the country. Pain has fallen southward of Napier and Wanganui. TO-DAY'S WEATHER. TB.OU OBSEBVATIOHS TAKBH II 9 4,8

Wind.— L, light; br, breeze; f b, fresh breeze; m g, moderate gale; g, whole or heavy gale; w, gale of exceptional seventy. Weather. — il, blue <sky, be the atmospheie clear or heavy; C, >mouds, passing clouds; D, drizzling ram; F, -/foggy; G, gloomy, dark weather ; H, hail /1, lightning ; M, misty ; O, ' overcast, the whole sky covered with thick clouds; I', passing showers; Q, squally; It, ram, continued ram; S, snow; T, thunder; U, ugly, threatening appearance. THE lUTL'KE. At 9 a.m. the following foreoast wia isaued for the subsequent 24 hours: — Wind. — Westerly, moderate to strong at all places northwaid of Jiasb Cape, Taupo, and Raglan ; westerly, strong to gale after 16 hours thence to Napier and Wanganui; northerly, strong to gale thenae to Lyttelton and Hofcitilia; westerly, strong to gale elsewhere. B.irometer.— Fall slowly northward of Napier and New Plymouth; fall soon thence to Lytteftou and Hokitika ; further fall i m the south. Sea.— Heavy on all western coast and on cast coast between Castlenotut and Lyttelton; good thence southwaid; moderate elsewhere. Tides.— High on all wesern coast and on east coast between Castlepoint and Lyttelton; good thence southward ; moderate all other ports. Rain is probable soon southward of Hokitika and Kaikoura, and also southward of Napier and New Plymouth after 16 hour.^ Warning signal for northerly gnlo is exhibited at Capes Campbell, Foulwmd, Farewell Spit, and for westerly gale at Nuggets, and for westerly gale will be shown at iiiist Cape after sunrise. S. A. EDWIN.

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