THE FORECAST NEWS BY WIRELESS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1914, Page 8

THE FORECAST NEWS BY WIRELESS.

Tho Dominion Meteorologist had ono of his bust "wireless" mornings to-day. First a report came to hand from Captain Post, of the Tntanckai, who reported that he was 500 mites north of East Cape. From the conditions mentioned it appears that the rentiw of the storm area is in the vicinity of the Tutanei'ni. Captain Post reported ft barometric reading of 28.o6— inurh below formal Then n wireless mine from tin R.M.S. Tahiti. 200 miles south. Tho reading from this vessel was 28.96, and this has convinced Mr. ' Bates as to the correctness of bin calculations. The captain of the Willochra when about 300 miles off the coast and on the way from Sydney to Wellington, stnted m a message that light noith-eaat winds were prevailing, with a confused uca. The wiitd», us mentioned above, moderated somewhat in the north, although

at 9 o'clock this morning southerly galei were reported at Gisborne, Cape Eg monfc, Opunake, and Stephen Island The moderation was brought, about by the neutralising effect of a western low pressure in the south. _ The outlook is by no means reassuring. "'We aro bound to have more rain," said Mr. Bates to a Post reporter, "and cloudy and unsettled weather." The winds, he added, were likely to be strong and variable, and for a time northerlies will predominate. This will probably culminate in another sou-wester in from thirty-six to forty-eight hours. In the meantime there will be considerable rain.