TO-DAY'S WEATHER.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 63, 17 March 1925, Page 3

TO-DAY'S WEATHER.

Bright Sunshine: Yesterday—Morning, tH 45m; afternoon, 6h 35m; total', lOh 20m. Temperature in Shader-HaximuHi, 87.0deg.; miunrium, ol.Odeg.;/ mean,, Co.sdeg. Kaiafall—Total for. the.2l.hours preceding 9 a.m. to-day—Nil. Total to date during tlie month—l.Dam. ,

Wind—Velocity of the wind for the 21 hours preceding 9 a.m. to-day—s.9 miles per hour/ Barometer—Yesterday,. 9~ a.m.',.: 30.22. Today, 8 a.m:,-30.33; noon, 30.30. • • •

Weather-B, blue sky, bo the atmosphere clear or hazy; C, cloudy, passiiig showers; D. drizzling rain; F, foggy; G, gloomy, dark ■weather; H, hail; 1. li ß htning; SI, misty; 0. overcast, the whole sky covered with "thick clouds; P, passing showers; Q. squally; R, ram, continued rain; S, ■■ snow; T, thunder; U, ugly, threatenmK?appearance; Z, hazy. Wind—C, calm; I, light; I)R, breeze; FB fresh breeze; MG, moderate (rale; G, whole or heavy gale; W, gale of exceptional severity.

The following forecast was issued at S a.m. to-day for the ensuing 24 hours :— Winds—Easterlies, moderate to strong, prevailing northward ot East Cape and Kawhia and westerlies In the southern districts; mode. Barometer—Little movement. Seas—Rough in Fovcaux . Strait; moderate; swell southward of Capo Eginont: moderate elsewhere. . ::■..- Tides—Generally moderate. ■' Weather—Fair weather, and a cold-night probable generally. . ■ * D. 0, BATES. Tuesday, 17th March, 1925.

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Station. Ther.\ Wind. Bar., in We'tn'r, <hade| Cape Maria V.D... Efb 30.36 . 05 Z Russell SE fb 30.37 6S C Hokianga Heads .. Nl 30.35 G3 B Kaipara Sig Stn .. E I 30.27 04 B Manukau heads. ' Not received. Auckland ..'."..'... SWI 30.10 G4 'B ' 7 Tiritiri .....' Not received. kawhia W 1 30.34 67 B' Tauranga W 1 30.31 C 7 B Tl"ipo S 1 30.27 66 B ■ East Cape .... >' 1 30.29 57 B Gisborne Calm 30.33 GO B Napier >,' l 30.30 os B Castlepoint ...... SE 1 — 00 B Cape Palliser ...... N,l „■ ,_ •■.(a-B Cape Egmout .... SWI 80.45 05 O Patea I'W br 30.38 03 B Wanganui KE 1 30.30 69 BC Foxton Calm — ■ 06 O Wellington .... KW br 30.32 04 BC Capo Campbell .. W 1 30.40 00 Z Farewell Spit .... W 1 — co B Westport SW fb 30.43 54 BC Greymouth SW 1 .30.37 57 DC Arthur's Pass .. NW.I _i. 46 B . Christchurcli ..i... ]s'l 30.30 Gt O Akaroa L.H. ..:...' Xl ' 30.3S ■ 04 ' ' C ' : J' m»ru SI ,30.32 5g O Oaniani C;ilm 20.58 58 B Bunediu NE 1 3H.32 50 BO Queenstown KW 1, 30.23 53 B ' £unaets W 1 — ■■ 51, c Bluff Wmg 30.25 50 B