RAIN TO FOLLOW

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1924, Page 6

RAIN TO FOLLOW

Mist over the hills surrounding t>ie city and a light drizzling rain have held out a prospect of a refreshing change the weather, but nothing more than'the prospect has eventuated so far. To-day the weather, although dull, isT muggy, and it is that condition that is accounting for the weather being oppressive, as the temperatures are not by any nie'ans as high as has been recorded recently. The highest temperature in . the shade yesterday was 78 degrees.1 The report of the Director of the Meteorological Office is to the effect that the barometer has fallen slightly in the South, and easterly.to northerly breezes have predominated.. Cloudiness has increased since yesterday, and drizzling rain was reported from a few places at 9 o'clock this morning, Wellington being one of the places. There is likely to be a further fall in the barometer, and northerly wind changing to westerlies in and south of Copk Strait and easterly breezes giving place to nartherlies in the North. Warm and humid weather may continue, unsettled and cloudy at times and foggy ia parts, with, tain Mowing guuriuly.