A MONTHS WEATHER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 76, 1 April 1910, Page 8

A MONTHS WEATHER.

AND THE OUTLOOK. Maich was a month of broken weather, especially in the lutter half. Rain came on sixteen days, producing 2.39 inches. The maximum fall was 1.05 inch on the 14th, according to the Mount Cook gauge, but probably the reading .-hould have been higher. This gauge has been proved unreliable, for the .site is unsuitable. Better ground is to be found in the near futiue. Laxt month's rain aggregate wnt below tho March average, which m 3.63 inches. The March recoid for wetness watestablished in 1803, when the thiitv-one days yielded 10-09 inehcx. The driest March was in 1881, when the moisture amounted to only four-fifths, of an inch (80 point!*). This morning the skies in tho far Noith were fctill ovcroa«i, but eh-ewheie bluenesH predominated, and the southerly air wa« deliriously fresh. A secondary low pressure, to which the "Meteorologist refeired two dayb ago, backed up into the cyclonic movement, and weakened the tempest. The fctorm had energy enough yes-terday to be ablo to do some, mischief along the East Coabt, as far down as Oatnaui, but the other operator intervened, and the South was saved. Nelson, for instance, had fine weather for Easter, and has had it since. One disturbance which worked up to the South Island will probably be reduced in activity. Southerly winds may come up for a brief period, but it is expected that this new atmospheric movement from the \\pt-t ivil' re-establish the old north-wecler here some time to-morrow. However, il is not anticipated that the change- will be a saddening one. The indications are for fine neathei generally.