A COLD CHANGE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 6

A COLD CHANGE

SOME UNSETTLED WEATHER

Over most of the Dominion the weather 1S expected to become unsettled with rain and colder temperatures according to the' forecast issued at noon today. On the- W es f Coast of the .South Island conditions wilr be mainly fair. Northerly winds will prevail .at first in the.Cook Strait area and eastern portions of the- North' Island, but southerlies .arc ...expected to become general by this evening. They will be moderate for the,most part "but will be strong on parts of the East Coast. A shallow complex depression is now crossing New Zealand, while an intense anticyclone is advancing over the Tasman Sea. The Auckland Province has had further, and,'in places, heavy rain, and.since last night- a. few scattered falls have also occurred in the western and southern districts of the South Island. Over most of the Dominiori, however, the. weather has been fair and warm, with light to- , moderate winds. Northerlies predominated yesterday, but' by this morning; directions had become more variable. .. > ■ At Auckland yesterday the weather was. dull and unsettled with a northeasterly breeze. . Showers fell during tho afternoon and heavy..rain, in the night. ■ . Wellington had-a hot summer's day, the maximum temperature rising in the afternoon to 76.7 degrees, which is only 0.1 degree below the hottest;, for this summer, which was on January 19. The sunshine totalled Hi hours. ...A light northerly wind prevailed. . ' At Christchiireh the "sky "was'- ;dull for the greater part of the day and a uoi-th-easteiiy' wind blew. ■"■ ■_ In Dunedin_it.wa.s. l dull ih.the morning, but the afterhboh was" sunny with a light1 northerly Wind.