METEOROLOGICAL

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 66, 18 March 1924, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

WELLINGTON'S WEATHER

TUESDAY, 18th MARCH.

J-ir^n^r? n'~iN^ V „moon' 6th day- 3-28 *•">• 2ui! .iTv fi; ""day> 4- 20 a-m- Full moon. 751 am' J' aSt quarfer- '^^ <*zy. The Sun-Rose to-day, 5h 50m a.m.; sets flh 6m p.m. Kises to-morrow, oh 5->m am • sets (in tim p.m. • '■ Bright Sunshine: Yesterday-Morning, 4h 4otn; afternoon, 4h 40m; total, 9h 25m. Temperature In Shade—Maximum Mi 7dee • minimum, 47.0deg.; mean, 57.3deg. '- ueb-< Rainfall-Total for the 24 hours preceding 9 mo^h4^.^"- TOti" t0 date du ™S &• Barometer—Yesterday, 0 a.m., 3U.2U. T o . day; 9 a.m., 30.25; noon, 30.23. . , x

SYNOPSIS OF LAST 21 HOIFKS.

Atmospheric pressure is still high over the Dominion, aud cool and fair to cloudy weather has prevailed, with modeiate. 10 siron" south-east to north-east winds predominating! TO-DAY'S WEATHER. ■

Weather—B, blue sky, be the atmosphere clear or hazy; C, cloudy, passing cloud*• 1) drizzling rain; I', foggy; G, gloomy, dark weather; H, hail; L, lightning; M, rniatv (j overcast, the whole, sky covered with 'thick clouds; 1\ passing showers; Q, squally It rain, continued rain; S. snow; X, tbunder: U, ugly, threatening appearance; Z, haz.

Wind—C, calm: L, light; Br, breeze'; t'B fresh breeze; JIG, moderate gale; G, whole or heavy gale; W. gale of exceptional severity.

Tile following forecast, was issued at 9 a.m. to-day for the ensuing 21 hours:— Winds—Easterly, moderate to strong, nortli-w.-ird of. Xew Plymouth and Castlepoint; easterly, bucking to increasing northerly ■ elseBarometer—Little movement in the North but falling in the South. , Seas—Hough northward of East Cape; moderate elsewhere. Tides—Good on all the eastern coast; poor in Cook Strait; moderate elsewhere. Weather—Fair to cloudy weather, and with increasing haziness generally for the development of v westerly disturbance. D. C. BATES. Tuesday, 18th' March, 1921.

Red Indians in 'Canada mitnber 106,000;----they live in Government reservations covering nearly 5,000,000 acres. Holding on.-elf in an erect altitude is more likely to'_brine- pleasant thoughts than is a slouching dejjorttuent.

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