WEATHER OUTLOOK
SQUALLY AND CLOUDY.
Atmospheric pressure has been rather unsteady falling and rising in the last twenty-four hours, and strong and squally westerly winds have ruled yesterday in and southward of Cook Strait, but moderated since 10 p.m. last night, states the Government Meteorologist (Mr. D. C. Bates). Yesterday afternoon, between 2 and 4 o'clock, the winds rose to an average of about 18 miles per hour, the maximum gusts being about 34 miles per hour, which is equivalent to a pressure of 31b per square foot.
Scattered rainfall has been recorded on the western coast, and warm and humid conditions, generally. A maximum temperature of 88 degrees F. was recorded at 4 p.m. yesterday at Napier and S-l degrees at* Kaikoura.
The forecast is for squally weather, with mild and humid conditions generally, cloudy and overcast :it times, with scattered showers on the West Coast and in southern districts. Little movement of the barometer is anticipated; and moderate westerly breezes are likely to prevail, strong at times about Foveaux Strait.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 155, 29 December 1925, Page 8
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172WEATHER OUTLOOK Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 155, 29 December 1925, Page 8
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