AN IMPROVEMENT DUE

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 129, 2 June 1928, Page 10

AN IMPROVEMENT DUE

Eucfully surveying to-day's wintry conditions, it is tantalising to think that comparatively close to New Zealand, stretching between the South Island and the coast of Australia, is an extensive an.ti-eyelone, and therefore presumably better weather. But with all its skill tho Meteorological Office ssUuT is powerless to bring that anticyclone closer to the Dominion or to counteract the effects of a cyclone which is now centred about 200 miles E.N.E. of East Cape. This cyclone was situated north-cast of tho Auckland peninsula, but has been moving in a southeasterly direction. Barometric pressure being high in the south, the influence of the cyclone has been to cause southerly winds to prevail, and these are particularly strong on the East Coast north of ,Capo Campbell and in the Cook Strait region. East Capo has experienced a heavy gale, especially early this morning, the wind being accompanied by copious rain amounting to I about two and a half-inches. Generally all over tho Dominion the weather has been cold and somewhat unsettled, showers being mainly confined to districts with an easterly aspect. Locally, during the 24 hours ending at 9 a.m. to-day, 2S points of rain fell. In Westland and in most of Otago better conditions have prevailed. ' The forecast issued at noon to-day anticipates south-easterly to southerly winds, being strong to a gale in force in the Cook Strait region and on the Mast Coast between Kaikoura and East Cape. They will, however, gradually moderate. In the meantime cloudy and unsettled weather is likely to continue in the- South Taranaki Bight and in the eastern districts of the North Island. .Elsewhere it should be mainly fair, an improvement gradually taking place in tiie less fortunate districts. Temperatures aro likely to remain ,Jo\v, with frosts in the south of the South Island.