METEOROLOGICAL

Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

WELLINGTON'S WEATHER i MOON FOR MARCH. Full moon, first day, 9.56 p.m.; last quarter, ninth day, 5.36 a.m.; new moon, fifteenth (lay, 11.38 p.m.; first quarter, twenty-third day, 1.10 p.m.; full moon, thirty-first day 12 45 p.m. (Standard time.) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1934. The Sun.—Bose today 5.38 a.m., sets 6.2T P.m.; rises tomorrow 5.39 a.m., sets 6.25 p.m (Standard Time.) -Bright Sunshine.—Yesterday: Morning 54 mm Afternoon, 3hr 18min. Total, 4hr 12min lemperature in Shade.—Maximum, 68.3 dc: minimum, 57.0deg; mean, G2.7deg. Bainfall.—Total for the 24 hours preceding 9 am today, 0.05 i n; total to date, 0.52 in. ° Wind.—Velocity of tho wind for tho 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. today, 21.1 m.p.h. ? Barometer.—Yesterday, 9 a.m., 29.681 in Today. 9 a.m., 29.397 in. SYNOPSIS OF LAST 24 HOURS. A scries of intense westerly depressions continues to cross tho Tasman Sea and New Zealand. Consequently strong westerly to southwesterly winds hare prevailed, reaching gale force at places and the weather has been changeable and squally generally. further ram has fallen in all districts with a westerly aspect and in the southern portion of the fcouth Island, some heavy falls having ocw„eVTer,Jhe ! atter area- Southerly winds have brought rain . since last night also to ff' 0' the fast coast of the *S<mth Island, but otherwise the eastern districts have experienced mostly fair weather.