TO-DAY"S WEATHER. From observations taken at 9 a.m.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1914, Page 6

TO-DAY"S WEATHER. From observations taken at 9 a.m.

Wind. — L, light ; br, breeze ; f b, fresh breeze ; m g, moderate gale; g, whole or heavy gale; w, gale of exceptional severity. Weather. — B, blue sky, be the atmosphere clear or heavy; C, clouds, passing cloud*; B, drizzling rain; F, foggy; G, gloomy, dark weather; H, hail; L, lightning; M, misty; O, overcast, the whole sky covered with thick clouds ; P, passing showers ; £, squally ; X, rain, continued raiu; S, snow: T.'T.hunder; U, Ugly, threatening appearance; Z, tuwy.

'At 0 a.m. to-day the following forecast was Issued for the subsequent 24 hours:— Winds.— Westerly, increasinc strong to gale, generally, and changing to southerly shortly. Barometer.— Fall, bub rite in the South soon. Sea.— Heavy on all the western coast, between Castlepoint and Kaikoura, and In foveaux Strait; moderate northward of East Cape ; rough elsewhere. Tides.— Moderate northward of East Cape; good elsewhere, Warning signals for westerly gales are exhibited at Cape Maria Van Diemen, Tiritiri, East Cape, Castlepoint, Capes Campbell, Furewcll Spit, and Foulwind, and at Stephen Island. Nugget Point, and Centre Island. W-eather.^Skies overcast, rain probable generally ; snow on higher levels in the South ; rivers flooded in the AVest Coast and southernmost districts of the South Island, D. C. BATES.

Station. ■Wind. Bar, (Ther. in shade We'th'r Cape Maria V7D. Kupeell ... Hokianga Heads Kaipara Sic. Stn Manukau Heads Auckland Tiritiri Kawliia Tauranga Taupo East Cape Gisborne Napier Castlepoint Cape Palliser ... CapoEgmont ... Patea ... ... Wanganui Foiton Wellington Cape Campbell... Farewell Suit ... "Westport Greymouth Bealey ... ... Ohristchurch ... Akaroa L.H. ... Timaru ... Oainaru ... Dunedin ... ... Queenstowa Nuggets Bluff SW f b Wbr Calm N 1 Nbr Calm NE 1 Calm Calm Calm SE 1 NWI Nl NW 1 N f b NE br Nbr NEI NWbr NWf b N f b NW 1 NW 1 NNW br NWf b NW 1 NWf b Calm Calm Nl RW 1 N 1 WSW 1 2077 2981 2081 2982 2980 29"81 29 4 80 29"02 29*9(3 29*79 2970 29*80 2974 29*67 2!1*66 2973 29*66 2971 2970 29*65 29*63 2970 2960 2960 29*48 20*40 29*40 29*40 29*40 2988 29"52 2936 2935 66. 55 56 54 54 57 60 51 53 48 54 48 52 5o 51 54 52 54 54 54 52 52 51 53 46 49 54 44 48 47 42 41 45 OP o o o a BO B B 0 B B C O B BO B 0 O O O 0 0 Z P OR OR OR O Q B 0 Z O O P OP