BETTER WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 146, 22 June 1934, Page 11

BETTER WEATHER

PROSPECTS^ FOR WEEKEND

Weather prospects for the weekend are distinctly more favourable than they have been for some days. The depression,.which has remained stationary for, several days, has at last; started to move away- eastward, and a moderate anticyclone at present covers most of the Tasman Sea. Hence the forecast issued at nQon today is for light to fresh southerly winds which will docrease gradually in strength. Winds will tend to. veer to ..the west, and.later ,to the north-west in the south, Although cloudy at first along the East Coast and; in far northern districts,, with some scattered and. light showers, .the weather should improve in those, areas, and elsewhere it will be fair to fine. Temperatures will be cold.

Southerly winds during -the last twenty-four hours have been general, and have freshened somewhat. since last night to the north of Cook .Strait, while remaining light. over the South Island. The weather in western districts has been fair, to fine, but elsewhere has continued dull and misty with occasional showers in most districts. Temperatures have been on the\ cold side. . . . ./■ '.. : ;'' V '

After-some early showers, the weather in Auckland improved yesterday and became fair to fine. An easterly breeze changed to a light' southerly in tho evening. The weather there today is fine and sunny. .. ~ .; .' .

Light rain,fell in Wellington yesterday up to about 9 a.m. -Thereafter the weather was dull and misty with a very light southerly wind. This freshened during the night, and between .midnight and 9 a.m. today showers, amounting to 10 points, of rain,, fell at intervals. Lower Hutt had only one point of rain. The. weather this morning was still overcast. ' - .

Christchurch had fair ;to ...cloudy weather with a light south-westerly wind. Since last evening, however, the weather has been dull and misty.' A light southerly wind, dull weather, and occasional showers. constituted Dunedin's lot yesterday. The,weather this morning was still overcast with a south-westerly.breeze. '