BETTER WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 28, 2 August 1923, Page 8

BETTER WEATHER

The weather conditions are much tho same to-day as yesterday. A very slight decrease in atmospheric pressure has been recorded. The night was cold, 6j degrees of frost being recorded in Wellington, and some very hard frosts in the South. Easterly winds moderate to strong are forecasted, backing to the northerly northward of Farewell Spit and Kaikoura, northerly elsewhere. The barometer has. a falling tendency and increasing cloudiness and haziness is to \,c expected with ' milder conditions, though a cold niglit is very probable. Cable messages from all parts of the world indicate that rain has been prevailing in other countries as. we'll_ as in New Zealand. At present it is summer time in the Old World, so that wet weather is even more unexpected at this time than it is in this Dominion. At Ottawa (Canada) heavy rain interfered with the Davis Cup fixture against Japan, and sodden courts were experienced at South Orange (New Jersey, U.S.A.) for the Australiaivllawaii match. At Dauville (France) another Davis Cup fixture was interfered with by the weather conditions, and in England, where July and August are looked upon as the months of most settled sunshine, cricket fixtures hav e been held up by rain. Heavy rain, causing serious floods, is reported from Bendigo (Victoria), and there have bean general heavy rains in New South- Wales, and Queensland. All these happenings have been reported in cable messages this week in countries separated by many thousands of miles, so that it is evident that rain has been fairly general the world over.