METEOROLOGICAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 129, 2 June 1936, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

WELLINGTON'S WEATHER MOON FOR JUNE. Full Moon, fifth day, 4.52 p.m.: but _■__> ■ ter, twelfth day, 11.35 p.m.; new mo* -_!•- , teenth day,. 4.45 p.m.j flfst quarter, tweltyserenth day, 6.53 a.m. > _ o T l he Sun --"*e «<£ roaTtodiyTr ».m., Htt . t.iO p.m. Blseft tomorrow T. 7 a.m., Mb «.•» Bright Sunshine.—Yesterday morning, all: , afternoon, lhr 24n_n. Total, lhr l_nln. Temperature -In. Sh*de.—Miilmum, 4*.o4mt: , minimum, 39.0deg; mean, 44.* deg. . ■ Kainfall.—Total for the 24 hours preceding 9 ••m. today. O.OBin. Total to date, 0.061n. Wind.—Velocity of tho wind for the 24 boot, preceding 9 a.m. today, 7.8 m.p.n. Barometer.—Yesterday, 9 a.m., 30.41M_t _» day, 9 a.m., 30.549 in; noon, 30.517 in. SYNOPSIS FOR LAST 24 HOURS.: A few isolated showers fell during yeetefday or last night on the East Coast between Banks Peninsula and Bast. Cape, but otherwise the weather was fine and by tills morning it had become brilliantly fine orer practically tie whole of the Dominion. Many sharp frostoccurred last night. Southerly winds hate predominated and yesterday were strong on parts of the Bast Coast and in the Cook Strait area, but since last night winds hare decreased generally in force and this morning were more ttriable in direction with a tendency for northerlies to prevail from Cook Strait southwards. An Intense anticyclone now lies centrally orer New Zealand. TOOAYIB WEATHER. -■■ Station. Wiad. Pres. Teap. Weatt^ Cape Maria ENE 1 : 30.41 53 "C Bussell ........S3 30.37 52 -B Hoklanga Heads SB 1 30.37 54 BS Kaipata Sig. S. SSW 4 30.34 53 BO} Manukau Heads ..St 58 C i Auckland .... SB 1 30.35 46 B i Tirltirl S4 48 BO ■■ Kawhla BE 1 41 B Tauranga Wl 30:30 41 B j Opotikl E 1 30.92 4. B Taupo ........ Calm ——■ 31 B East Cape S5 30.18 48 BCI Glsborne ...... SW 3 30.32 48 C Napier ....... SW 2 30.36 48 B Castlepoint S 4 30.35 45 QT Cape Palliser .. Wo 48 O*. New Plymouth SB 3 30.3G 48 B Cane Egmont .. SB 3 30.35 46 BC , Patea SSE 5 30.39 50 BG , Wanganul K 1 30.41 46 O 'j Toxton Calm 37 B4X i Wellington .. SSW 2 30.43 4* O Nelson SE 1 30.42 30 B Cape Campbell W 3 30.43 43 B ) Farewell Spit .. SE 1 30.41 40 ■O.'j Westport 8 2 30.41 40 ■»:'', Greymouth E4. 30.43 35 B , Arthur's Pass SW 1 V » Kalkoura .. SSW 2 30.4« 44 84l < Chrlstchurch SSW 2 30.48 4* O^ Akarotl _'house SW 4 30.44 4G CB* .Timaru Calm 30.51 4« C Oamaru Calm 30.45 41 © , Dunedin SW 1 30.50 48 C ■", Alexandra E 2 38 O Queenstown .... N 1 30.49 30 J* Jiuggets Calm 30.50 43 0_» Bluff N 1 30.45 42 O Puysegur Point Calm 30.42 40 BE Beaufort scale of wind force, with •<—»»< ■eat m.p.h.—l. light air. J-3: i. allfhl team 4-T; 3 gentle breexe, 1-11; 4. »oderate btiiwt 11-16; B, fresb bree_a, IT-11: 1, -trow hHR M-2T} T, high wind, M-S3; S, gala, 34-40;». strong gale. 41-48; 10, whole gale. 49-Ml 11. storm, 57-68; 12, hurricane. Weather.—B, blua iky; BC, Wua »_y M 4 detached clouds; C, cloudy; O, oraeut: <fc gloomy, dull; TJ, ugly, threatening; ■._»»- tlauous or steady rain; S, mow; D, drikila; F, passing showers; H, hall; Q, sqailly; fc. lightning; T, thunder: T. tog; U, -let! S, bate.

FORECAST. Winds.—Light to moderate and variable; southcrlics still ruling »t first between Cawipoint and East Cape, but otherwise north-eMt to north prevailing. Barometer.—Little movement. Seas.—Rough at first between Castlepoint a>« East Capo; elsewhere smooth, to moderate. Weather.—Fine generally and milder, but with a few isolated showers later in eeat-erm westland and the fax south.