GOOD FALL IN NORTH OTAGO.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 23 January 1924, Page 8

GOOD FALL IN NORTH OTAGO.

■■.•;•' ■"■ • OAMARTL This Day!l The long drought was broken by good rain last night. The fall was very general, and there are prospects of more to follow.

After enjoying to the full '-the gift of a perfect day for the.holiday yesterday, Wellington awoke to rain this morning, and the flannels and parasols of yesterday were replaced by raincoats and umbrellas. The, first indication of a change^ in the conditions came about nine o'clock last evening, when the southerly breeze caused a heavy .mist to ■gather. To-day's weather will be welcomed by those whose gardens were feeling the need of moisture, and the stock remark; "It will do a lot of good, though," was general'in the city streets this morning. Atmospheric pressure has increased in the southern districts, but, according .to the Dominion Meteorologist a disturbance has been located northward of the Dominion, and the warm and humid conditions are giving pla.ee to cloudy and unsettled weather, with rain in many parts of the Dominion, The indications are for bountiful rainfall, and easterly winds, strong to gale,' are likely to be experienced northward of East Cape- 3nd Kawhia, and south-easterlies . may be expected • elsewhere.

The thermometer yesterday reached 81.6, about two degrees lower than it was on the previous day. Many people thought that yesterday was hotter than Monday, but that opinion was no doubt due to the fact that .the atmosphere yesterday was-muggy.-