RAIN UP SOUTH

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 8

RAIN UP SOUTH

WEATHER FINE ELSEWHERE

Pino iveatlicr may "be expected to c6ntinuo in most districts, says the weather forecast issued at noon today, but rain will bo developing in far northern districts and will extend during tho next two days over most of the Auckland Province. . Moderate to, fresh westerly winds will prevail in far southern districts, but freshening south-easterlies may bo expected from Cook Strait northward. Elsewhere winds will be variable'and-light to moderate. Tho anticyclono moving on to the Dominion has been responsible for the fine and pleasant weather of the last twenty-four hours. Winds have been moderate to fresh, but decreasing; s'outherlies. A few isolated showers have fallen in far-northern and far southern—districts and in Westland, but by this morning the fine weather wag practically general and winds were mpro variable. The tropical cyclone which has been operating in the neighbourhood of New Caledonia during the last few days isapparentry now moving southward, for there has been a steady fall in barometric pressure at Norfolk Island Bince yesterday. Auckland experienced lino and hazy weather yesterday with a moderate south-westerly wind. Tho weather in Wellington was brilliantly fine yesterday, over ten hours of bright sunshine being recorded. The southerly, however, which sprang up at about 11.30 a.m. freshoned iii tho late afternoon and temperatures became cold. Christchurch a'so had a sunny day, but tho wind was a strong southwesterly. A strong south-westerly wind prevailed yesterday in Diuiedin also, the weather being cloudy_ "with, occasional sunshine.