METEOROLOGICAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 7

METEOROLOGICAL

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1938

The Sun.—Rose today 5.30 a.m.; sets 5.54 p.m. Rises tomorrow 5.28 a.m.; sets 5.55 p.m. (Standard Time.) Bright Sunshine.— Yesterday : Morning, 4.lh:r , afternoon, 4.6 hr; total, B.7hr. Temperature at 9 a.m., oO.ldeg; relative humidity at 9 a.m., 99 per cent. Minimum temperature yesterday, o7.9deg, minimum temperature last night. 4S.9deg; mini-j mum temperature on grass, 47.2deg. | Mean wind velocity for 24 hours ending 9 a.m. today, 6.5 m.p.h. Rainfall in previous 24 hours, ,0.09 m; rain-, fall to date this month, 5.94 in ; rainfall to date ' this year, 45.55 in; rainfall average for September, 3.20iu; rainfall average from January 1 to the end of September, 32.87 in. Barometer, 9 a.m., 30.210 in, 1023.0 millibars; noon, 30.230 in, 1023.7 millibars. SYNOPSIS OF LAST 24 HOIJSS. A slight depression is crossing the centre of tho Dominion. Pressure, however, has remained high in the north and has risen again in the south. Except for moderate to fresh north-westerlies in the Cook Strait area, winds yesterday wore light and variable. During the night a little southerly advanced up the South Island. It was showery in the far south yesterday but otherwise the weather was fair to flno generally with cool to moderate temperatures. Unsettled conditions developed overnight in central provinces, where it is still raining in a number of places, but tho nveather has already begun to improve.

TODAY'S WEATHER

Beaufort scale ol wind force wltn equivalent m.p.h.—o, calm, 0-1; 1, light air, 2-3. 2. slight breeze. 4-7; 3, gentle breeze. 8-11; ! 4,. moderate breeze, 12-16: 5. fresb breeze 17-21; 6, strong breeze. 22-27; 7. high wind, 28-33; 8, gale. 34-40; 9, strong gale 41-48; 10. whole gale. 49-56; 11. storm. 57-65; 12 hurricane. Weather. —B, blue sKy, cloufl amount 0-3 tenths; BC, blue sky and detached clouds cloud amount 4-6 tenths; C, cloudy, cloudamount, 7-8 tenths ; O. overcast, cloud amount 9-10 tenths; G, gloomy dull; 0. ugly, threat ening; R, continuous or steady rain; 8 snow; JP precipitation within sight of station; D. drizzle; P. passing showers; H hail; Q. squally; L, lightning; T, thunder. h- fog; M, mist: Z. haze; X boar frost 1 Intermittent. ; FORECAST. Winds. —Light, to moderate and variable; southerlies jirei' jminating at first from' Canterbury and Westland northwards. Northerlies thence southward 'and gradually extending northward, to beyond Cook Strait by tomorrow. Seas. —Slight to moderate. Weather.—Fino at first in the far north ancl south; elsewhere cloudy to overcast with scattered but mainly light rain. Improving from the west and south. Temperatures moderate.

Station. Wind 'res. 'emp 'eat! id Cape Maria V.D. S 3 30.39 Russell Ml 30.3G Hokianga Heads S 3 30.34 Kaipara Sig. Sn. SW - 30.24 Manukau Heads SW 3 Auckland .. WNW 1 30.34 Tiritiri N 1 Kawhia N 1 Tauranga ; W 1 30.29 Opotiki Calm 30.26 Taupo ■'. NNE 1 East Cape : S3 30.33 Gisborne NW 3 30.27 Napier SE 1 30.24 Castlepoint .. NW 3 30.21 Cape Palliser SW 5 New Plymouth .. W 2 30.27 Capo Egmont . W 4 3,0.25 Patea Calm ■ Wanganui ... NNW 4 30.25 Foxton N 1 Wellington S 2 30.21 Nelson Yar. 2 30.20 Cape Campbell SSE 3 30.19 Farewell Spit WNW 3 30.19 Westport. SI 30.18 Greymouth IM 30.10 Arthur's Pass SW 1 Kaikoura S3 30.22 Christchurch WSW 3 30.28 Akaroa L'house SW 3 30.27 Timaru S 2 30.27 Oamaru W 1 30.27 Dunedin SI 30.27 Alexandra —Not received. . Queenstown .. Calm 3.023 Nuggets SE 1 30.24 Bluff K2. 30.27 Puysegur Point NE 2 30.21 58 54 54 58 63 50 54 53 52 53 55 55 51 58 57 55 56 55 r.4 53 52 50 52 54 53 54 50 41 52 48 49 50 51 49 44 45 46 48 B B BCF BC BC C BC O 0 BC BC B 0 o BC O'/i OU 0 OK 0 o om o c oz o OMR o o 0 O om BC C C BCZ BJF B