METEOROLOGICAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 133, 12 June 1909, Page 4

METEOROLOGICAL.

4 WELLINGTON'S WEATHEB. THE SUN. Hose to-day — 7h 12m a.m. ; sets 4h 2Sm p.m. Eises to-morrow— 7h 13m a.m. ; sets 4h 27m p.m. UttIGHT SUNSHINE. Yesterday— Morning, lh 20m; afternoon, nil; total, lh 20m. THK MOON. (Calculated for New Zealand Mean Time.) D. H. M. Full moon „. 4 0 55 p.m. Last quarter 11 2 13 p.m. New moon is 10 53 a.m. First quarter 26 G 13 a.m. TEMPERATDRK IN SHADE. Yesterday — Maximum, 55deg. ; minimum, 44deg. ; mean, 49def». To-day, 1 p.m.— s3deg. RAINFALL. For the 24 houra preceding 9 a.m. to-day-Total to date during month— o.2lin. WIND. Average velooitv for the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. to-day— l 2 miles per hour. BAROMETER. Yesterday— s p.m., 30.30. To-day— 9.3o a.m., 30.42; 1 p.m., 30.16. NEW ZEALAND. SYNOPSIS OF LAST 24 HOUBS. Anti-tfycioiric pressure has increased, especially south of East Cape and New Plymouth, and the weather has been generally very cloudy and humid — -nariner in the north, but cod and frosty in the south. . Conditions have beeu most unusual and betoken a great change in the weather over a wide area. Increasing north-easterly winds have prevailed northward or East Cape and Kawhia, and moderate southerly winds elsewhere, with moderate seas and tides generally. TO-DAY'B "WEATHER. THOU OBSEEVATIOKS T.IKEM AI 9 A.M

Wind.— L, light; br, breeze; f b, Iresli breeze ; in g, moderate gale ; g, whole or heavy gale; w, gale oi exceptional severity. Weather.— B, blue sb.y, be the atmosphere clear or heavy; C, clouds, passing cloudu; D, dmzhng rain; F, foggy; G, gloomy, dark weather; U, had; L, lightning; M, misty; O, overcast, the whole sky covered with thick clouds; P, passing shov/ers; Q, squally, X, rain, continued rain ; .S, snow ; T, thunder ; U, ugly, threatening appearance. FORECAST. At 9 a.m. the following forecast was issued for the subsequent 24 hours :- Winds. — Easterly winds probably increasing to a heavy gale gene) ally alter 24 hours. Barometer.— Fall everywhere and fast after teii hours. Sea.— Veay heavy northward of East Cape and increasing on all eastern coast;" considerable elsewhere after 24 hours. lides. — Very high north of East Cape; low on the wejt coast of the North Island; high all other ports. Rain.— Heavy ' rain is probable generally, and rivers flooded after 24 hours. Warning signal for easterly gale is exhibited at Cape Maria Van Diemen, Tiritiri, and East Cape, also at Capes Campbell, Foulwind, Farewell Spit, Stephen Island, Nugget Point, and Centre Island. \ D. C. BATES.

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