METEOROLOGICAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 16, 19 July 1910, Page 6

METEOROLOGICAL.

WELLINGTON'S WEATHER. THE SUN.

Rose to-day— "h 10m a.m.; sets 4h 43m p.m. Rises to-morrow — 7h 9m a.m.; sets 4h 44m p.m. HEIGHT SUNSHINE. Yesterday— Morning, 8h 16m; afternoon, ih 20m; total, 71) 35m. THE MOON. (Calculated for New Zealand Mean Time.) D. H. M. New moon *.. 7 8 60 a.m. First quarter ... „. 7 84 p.m. Pull troon 22 8 7 p.m. Last quarter 29 0 4 p.m. TEMPERATURE IN THE SHADE. Yesterday — Maximum, 57.Sdeg. ; minimum, 42.Sdeg. ; mean, 50.3deg. To-day, at n00n— 53d 33. RAINFALL. For the 21 hours preceding 9 a.m. to-day-Nil. Total to date during the month— l.S9in. Total rainfall for June— B.oom. TOND. Average velocity for the 2i boars preceding 9 a.m. to-day— 7 miles per hour. BAROMETER. Yesterday— s p.m., 29.92. To-day— 9.3o a.m., 30.04; noon, 30.03. NEW ZEALAND. SYNOPSIS OF THE LAST 24 HOURS. The barometer has risen steadily in tho South, and anti-cyclonic pressure now prevails everywhere. A strong south-westerly gale prevailed in Foveaux Strait last night and this morning, with rain in the southernmost districts and on the West Coast of the South Island. Moderate to strong southerly and westerly winds have prevailed. Seas have been heavy in Foveaux Strait. TO-DAY'S "WEATHER. VBOII OBSEKriTIOHS TAKEN AT 9 A.M

Wind.— li, light; br, breeze; / b, fresh breeze ; in g, moderate gale ; g, whole or heavy gale; w, gale ot' exceptional seventy. Weather. — B, blue sky, be the atmosphere clear or heavy; C, clouds, patting clouds; D, drizzling rain; V, loggy; ti, gloomy, dark weather; H, hail; L, nghtning; M, misty; O, overcast, the wliolu sky covered uitu thicl: clouds; I\ pa&shig showers; Q, equally, 11, rain, continued rain; S, enow; T, thunder; U, ugly, threatening appearance. FORECAST. At 9 a.m. the following forecast was issued for the subsequent 24 hourb :— Winds.— South-easterly, veering to easterly, and increasing strong to gale, after 24 hours northwaid ot East Cape and Kawhia; westerly, moderate to strong, thence to Hokitika und Lytteiton, and strong to gale elsewhere. Barometer.— Jb'-ail northward of Waiigauul and Napier; rise slowly elsewhere. Sea. — Rough ou the west coa-st bouthward of ■Cape Egmont, and heavy in Foveaux Stiait; increasing northward of East Cape after 16 j houra ; moderate elsewhere. Tides.— High in Foveaux Strait; Increasing northward of East Cape; poor on all the western coast, and moderate elsewhere. Weather.— Unsettled and cloudy weather is probable on all the \restern coast, and in both extseme north aod south, with increasing haziness generally. | Warning signal lor westerly gale Is evhibitcd at Nugget Pohit iind Centre Island, and for easterly gales will" he exhibited at. mhi- : | rise at tiritiri and East Cape. (Cape Maria Van Diemen interrupted). D. C. BATEB.

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