METEOROLOGICAL

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 31 August 1928, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

■ : : WELLINGTONIS ' WEATHER ; '.', .MOON FOR AUGUST. " Full moon, and day. 3.1 ajnl . Last quarter; »th day, 4.51 a.m. New moon, 16th day, 1.19. a.m.1 First quarter, 23rd-day, 7.51 p.m. Full moon,r3lst, day, 2.4 p.m.- : ■ ;.' ■!- . :;.;" s: ';■ ■: .FRIDAY, 31st. AUGUST. „..). : '; : , .' The ;Sun-rEosevto-day,,:6li ;18m a.m.; seta; oil 2oni p.m..,'. Rises to-morrovr, 6h, 16ni a.m.; ,sets,,.su 2Cm p.m. •■■;'■-'"■■ "•■ ' ''■-.■ Bright ,'■ Sunshine: '.Te'storday— Morning/ lil 35m; afternoon; In 22m; total, 2h 57m. . . Temperature in Shades-Maximum, 53.5deg.; minimum,;3B.odeg.; mean, 45.7deg. Rainfall—Total; for' the 24 : hours''preceding 9 a.m. - to-day—l.lsln. Total to dato during the. month-7-9.84in: ,'■.,.:, ■,".:■ '■!;'..■■■ • . - ; Wind—Velocity of the wind for the.24 hour* precotiing 9'a.m. to-day—l9.s miles per hour. 1 Barometer—Yesterday, 9 a.m., 29.821n.- Today, 9 a.m.;-29.Dim;, noon, 29.64iu.. ', :. ■-: ' '. '; SYNOPSIS OF LAST [i'i HOUKS. ..... The trough ■, of a deep: depression crossed the Dominion during. 'Thursday / night, •'■ and winds,;, which, yesterday', were mainly 'stroiis nbrlhjweste'rlies, have, 'since''backed'to southwesterllcs.', By 9 a.m; :to-day,.however, th« winds had decreased -in::force 'south-■'of Cbc* .Strait,, but northwards -. they ■>' wero .still. stroriff. With (jaio -force at many, places.. ;" The southerly -was accompanied "with very squa'UV" conditions and; rain ' iii', most districts, i someHeavy' falls occurriiiff .at places,*-more especially in' the'South'.lsland and .tho Cook Strait area. Snow also fell, at -some, high: level stations : in. l both> tho. North iand .South Islands.