METEOROLOGICAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 17

METEOROLOGICAL

WELLINGTON'S WEATHER

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER S, 1937. The Sun.—noso today 4.33 a.m.; sets 6.30 p.m. Rises tomorrow 4.32- a.m.; sets 6.37 p.m. (Standard Time.) Bright Sunshine.—Yesterday:'Morning, 5.3 hr; afternoon, o.7hr; total, O.Ohr. Maximum temperature yesterday, G9.odeg; minimum temperature last night, 43.7deg; minimum temperature on grass, 32.3dcg. Mean wind velocity for 24 hours ending 9 a.ni. today, 7.5 m.p.h. Ilainfall in previous 21 hours, nil; rainfall to dato this month, nil; rainfall to date this year, 28.07 in; rainfall average for November, 2.91)1n; rainfall average from January 1 to the end of November, 59.37i0. Barometer, 9 hours, 30.1241n, 1020.2 millibars; noon, 30.07lln; 1018.3 millibars. SYNOPSIS OF LAST 24 HOURS. Yesterday's depression has disappeared eastwards, and an anticyclone now covers New Zealand. The latter'ls,'however, losing intensity and pressure is again falling in tho south. During yesterday fresh and squally couth-west-erlies predominated with rather cloudy conditions, but S.v this morning wlncla had decreased generally In forco and had changed ( to northerlles about and .south of- Cook Strait. A few Isolated light showers have fallen, mainly In tho western districts and the far south, but though still cloudy tills morning in districts with a westerly aspect tho weather generally was much improved. TODAY'S WEATHER, Station. Wind. Ires. Xcmp. Weather. C. Maria V.D. ESE 2 30.61 -.64 GMID ltiusoll S3 30.2U lid li Hoklanga Heads X! 30.15 59 CM Kalpara ■ Sic St. XE 3 30.12 64 C Mtnukau Heads MW. 1 . — ■ ti'J 1$ Auckland Calm 30.20- 02 ■ ■«■■ . Tlrltlrl X 1 — 61 BOZ Kawhia Nil 1 -- t<7 OP Taurauga SE 3 30.20 62 O Opotikl W 2 30.31 CO BC Taupo SI — 56 BC £ast Cope S3 30.22 DU . B Glsbome SW 1 30.26 57 B Napier :.....'.. XX 3 30.1!) 58 B Oastlepolot ... SE 1 30.03 Do « Cape TalllMr . ESE 1 — DS BZ Now Plymouth .. XI 30.21 62 CZ Cape Egmont .. N 4 30.14 D 7 BC Patea Calm — 61 BC Wanganul NE 1 30.16 »7 O Foxton ........ ME 1 — \ D 8 O Wolllngton .... NW 3 30.12 53 BC Nelson N 2-3 30.18 51 O Cape Campbell NW 6 30.09 35 B Farewell Spit NW 2 30.18 54 BCZ Westport E 2 30.19 54 ' OM Greymouth .... NW 4 30.20 V sl OZ Arthur's Pass NW 4 — 49 O Kalkoura N 4 30.10 57 BZ Cliristchurch ENE 5 30.03 D 2 BCZ.., Akaroa L'house NW 1 29.99 57 O / Tlmaru WNW 4 29.97 S8 CJZ Oamaru NB 3 29.97 52 BO Dunedln NNW 1 ' 29.96 59 BZ Alexandra.—Not received. Queenstown .. SW 2 ; 30.01 53 C Nuggets ... W2 29.94 al BCZ Bluff .......... W6 29.97 53 CZ Puysegur Pt. NNW 7 30.06 50 O Beaufon scale ot wlna torce, ffltli equlralent m.p.h.—o. calm, 0-1 i 1, light tlr, i-3; i (light breeze, 4-7: 3. geotlt breeze, »-ll; 4, moderate breeze. 12-18; D, fresh breeze. 17-21 i 6, itrong breeze, 22-27: T. hlgb wind. 28-33; 8, gale, 84-40 j », etroni gale, 41-48; 10, whole gal*. »-S6t 11. storm 67-65! 12. ourrlcane. Weather.—B. blue sky. cloud amount 0-S tenths; BC, blue iky and detached cloud*, cloud amount 4-6 tenths; C, cloudy, cloudening: B. continuous or steady rain; S. snow; JP, precipitation within sight of station; O. drizzle; P, rasslag showers) H, hail; Q, squally I h, lightning) T, thunder ( F. fog: 11, mist: Z, haze; X. boar frost; I. InterFORECAST. Winds. —Southerly or south-easterly at first in the far north, but northerlles soon becoming general; light to moderate mainly, but strong at times In the Cook and Foveaux Straits areas. Barometer.—A falling tendency. , Seas.—ttough In the Foveaux jStrait area; elsewhere slight to moderate, but rising about Cook Strait and later on tho west coast of the South Island. Weather.—Fair to fine Jn eastern and northern districts; clouding over and rains developing on the west coast and in far southern districts of the South Island, and extending northwards to Kawhia. Temperatures niild.