CHANGE IN WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1920, Page 8

CHANGE IN WEATHER

The remarkable spell of hot, fine weather broka last night in a not unwelcome rain, and the fall up to the present has been no fewer: than 115 points, with the downpour still continuing. The weather locally for the past week has been hot and close owing to the great humidity of the atmosphere. The highest temperature so far recorded locally, was 79.8 degrees yesterday, while Saturday's figure reached 75.8 degrees. To the layman the break in the weather was sudden and unexpected, but the MeteorologisWaw it coming some days ago. The situation, as described by the Government Meteorologist (Mr. D. C. Bates), v,-as brought about by the combination of two disturbances, a tropical disturbance bringing warm rain and high temperatures from the north, and a disturbance in the s,outh accompanying ..a fall in the barometer on Thursday. It has not yet recovered, but a rise may be expected shortly in the south, and in about ten hours the other disturbance which threatens now to pass through Cook Strait will be likely to show a change., North of Auckland northerly and easterly gales iave been experienced during the past three or four days, and the skies • have been overspread. Considerable rain is reported this morning, liie vin'Js have been light locally through the neutralisation of the two disturbances, one of the other. It was a westerly disturbance which passed in the south oh Friday, the tropical disturbance in the north bringing gales, cloudy skies, and rain. 1, -No gales are reported this morning except to the south-west of Nugget Point. Westerly gales are forecasted. with a ohange to the south in the northern districts, while southerly gales are expected in the southern districts. Rain is likely to be heavy to-day and to-night about Cook Strait; and the east coast' of the South Island* where floods may ■ occur with,snow probable on some of the higher'levels of - the South Island. ' • ; '