NORTHERN CYCLONE BLAMED.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 8

NORTHERN CYCLONE BLAMED.

■Intervals of sunshine to-day have had .but little effect upon the prevailing raw weather, and once again conditions for the week-end are disagreeable. These are due to outside influences, but for which the weather locally might have been much better, the barometer being still above normal.' The Director of the Meteorological Office (Mr. D. C. Bates) reports that a cyclone centre located to the north of New Zealand has been responsible for southerly winds, strong to gale. Cold and squally conditions have prevailed, with rain in the northern and East Coast districts, and snow has fallen on the higher levels. Conditions continue threatening. Un'. settled and cloudy weather, with heavy lain, is probable in the northern and Easl Coast districts, especially of the North Island, and rivers are likely to be flooded in the,north. Cold and changeable weather may be expected elsewhere, with heavy showers along the East Coast of the South Island. The barometer is unsteady in the north, but little movement is expected elsewhere bouth-easterly winds are likely—stron" to gale northward of Farewell Spit and and Banks Peninsula, and moderate and squally at times . elsewhere.