STEADY RAIN

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 146, 17 December 1924, Page 3

STEADY RAIN

A FALL IN TEMPERATURE,

Within three hours of the tune" expected by the Acting-Meteorologist in making his forecast yesterday, a decided change has taken place in the weather, and it is being experienced locally in a steady rainfall and a southerly which set in at about 2 o'clock this morning. Atmospheric pressure has increased m the South, but it still below normal everywhere. This morning's weather chart is interesting, showing a "low" centre off the western coast, which, on yesterdays chart, was indicated 500 miles west of its present position. Strong westerly winds have backed to souther? lies m and south of Cook Strait, and unsettled and cloudy weather has prevailed with rain in many parts Tha local rainfall for the twenty-four hours preceding 9 a.m. to-day amounted to 33 points. Conditions have become colder generally, there being a- decrease of 9 degrees in the temperature locally, compared with that registered yesterday morning. The forecast is for strong westerly winds northward of New Plymouth and Castlepoint, and southerlies strong to gale, southwards. Cold, unsettled, cloudy weather and further ram is to be expected generally, and heavy ram is likely in the Taranaki and Wellington districts and in the north-east portions of the South Island. Rivers will probably rise in those parts.