METEOROLOGICAL

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

WELLINGTON'S WEATHER

MOON FOR OCTOBER. j i'ull mooa, fourth day, 4.38 a.m.; iast quarter, twelfth day, 4.16 a.m.; new moon, nineteenth day, 5.15 p.m.; first quarter, twenty-siith day, 9.51 a.m.

- MONDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1933. | The Sun.—Tho sun rose today 4.-11 a.m.; sets 6.29 p.m. Rises tomorrow 4.39 a.m.; Bets 6.30 p.m. ■ Bright Sunshine.—Yesterday: Morning, nil; afternoon, nil; total, .nil. Temperature in Shade.—Maximum, 50.0des; minimum, 41.8deg; mean, 48.9deg. Rainfall.—Total for the 48 hours preceding 0 a.m. today, 0.54 in; total to date during the month, 2.irin. Wind.—Velocity of the wind for the 48 hours preceding 9 a.m. today, 9.1 m.p.h. Barometer.—Yesterday, ft a.m.. 29.571 in; today, 9 a.m., 20.741.

SYNOPSIS OF LAST 48 HOURS. During Saturday night and Sunday a depression In the northern part of which a cyclono had developed, rapidly crossed the Dominion. Strong northerly winds blew on Saturday, but a southerly change had reached the extreme south by 4 p.m., and extended over the country during tho following twenty-four "hours. Gale force wae again peached In tho north, but in tho south the wind was not so strong -as the northerly had been. The depression brought general rain with some heavy falls In the Southern Alps and the Auckland Province. A fresh depression Is followlDK rapidly on that mentioned, and winds over the South Island have already returned to .the north, and rain la commencing again iv Westland and the far south.