COOLER CONDITIONS PROBABLE

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 27, 31 January 1917, Page 8

COOLER CONDITIONS PROBABLE

A WELCOME CHANGE,

Those who were beginning to feel the continued hot weather oppressive will be pleased to hear that a change to cooler conditions is probable, according to the forecast issued to-day by the Meteorological Office. -.'

Yesterday was the hottest day that has so far been experienced this year, a maximum temperature of 81.5 degrees in. the shade being recorded. There was only one hotter day in 1916, when a temperature of 85 degrees in the shade was experienced. By a strange coincidence this took place exactly a'year ago yesterday --on 30th January, 191.6. The highest temperature in the shade- recorded in Wellington was on 20th February, 1895, when the thermometer stood at 88 de grees in the shade. Since Friday last, the maximum shade temperatures have been as follow :—Friday 78.9 degrees, Saturday 77.0, Sunday 78,7, Monday 80.0, Tuesday 81.5. ■ : In the Northern and Southern, districts' unsettled' weather conditions have been experienced, with rain, in 'parts, but generally elsewhere the weather has been very fine and warm. Since yesterday cloudiness has increased. In the northern portion of the North Island easterly gales are still reported—the result of a sub-tropical depression which has been in evidence for the past four days. Northerly and easterly breezes have predominated. The forecast is for cloudy and overcast conditions with raiir" in many, parts of the country, and the weather will become cooler generally.

Easterly winds merging into gales'are probable northward of Kawhia. and East Cape, with moderate to strong easterlies veering to the south-east, and increasing soon, elsewhere.