METEOROLOGICAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 4

METEOROLOGICAL.

♦ WELLINGTON'S WEATHEB. tbs ant. Rose to day— 6h 5m a.m. ; sets fin 43 p.m. Rises to-morrow— 6h 6m a.m.; sets fib 41m p.m. ÜBIQH7 aUNSHINK. Yestesday— Morning, 4h; afternoon, 5h 30m; total, Oh 30m. THE MOON. (Calculated for New Zealand Mean Time.) I). H. M. Last quarter 3 o 18 p.m. New moon lv 8 05 a.m. First quarter 17 1 34 a.m. Full moon 23 0 63 a.m. TEIIPERATITRK IK SHADE. Yesterday — Maximum, 04.2dcg. ; minimum, 54de?.; mean, JO.ltlcg. 10-day, at noon — G2deg. ItAIXKALL. For the 21 hours preceding 0 a.m. to-day-Nil. Total rainfall for March— 2.39in. WIND. Average Telocity for the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. to-dav— l2 miles per hour. DABOIIETEB. Yesterday— s p.m., 29.90. To-day— ».BO a.m., 30.20; noon, 80.17. NEW ZEALAND. SYNOPSIS OF THE LABT 24 HOURS. A sliarp rise nnd fall in barometric pressure has taken place in the southern districts, with squally and changeable weather in tlioee parts. The barometer has risen slowly in the north, -with cool and bracing weather,* but showery at times on the east coast. TO-DAY'B WEATHER, vaov OBaanviTiovs takbk at 9 a.v

Wind.— L, light; br, breeze; i b, fresh breeze; ni n, moderate gale; g, whole or heavy gale; w, gale of exceptional severity. Weather.— B, bluo kky, be the atmosphere clear or heavy; C, c'ouds, passing cloudw; D, drizzling rain; F, foggy; U, gloomy, dark wcatircr; U, hail; h, lightning; M, rauty; O, overcast, tho whole sky covered with thick clouds; I', pabsing showers; Q, squaily, ft, rain, continued ram; S, unow; T, tbju«der; U, ugly, threatening appearance. FORECAST. At 0 a.m. the following forecast wus Issue* for tli« subsequent 24 hours :- Winds.— Easterly, moderate to stronj:, northward of Castlepoint and Fox ton, and northerly, incrciibing strong to gale, elsewiiere. Barometer. — Little movement noirthwurd of New Pl> mouth and Xapler; fall elserwhrre. Sea.— Hough between Castlepoint; and Kaikoum, and in Foveaux Strait; m<iderate else where. Tides.— Good northward of Gisborne; low on the west coast of the North Island; and moderate all other ports. Weather.— Cloudy and unsettled at time* everywhere, wth rain .probable uhortly southward of New Plymouth and Napier. Warning bignal for northerly gale is exhibited at Ca|>efi Campbell, Farewell Spit, and Foulwmd, and at Stephen Island, Nugget Point, and Centre Island. IX C. BATES.

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