LIGHT WINDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 59, 11 March 1939, Page 8

LIGHT WINDS

INTERMITTENT RAIN

Special forecast for Wellington:—

Light to fresh south-easterlies. Weather cloudy and overcast and cool, with occasional but mainly light rain.

The forecast for the Dominion as a whole, issued at noon today for the ensuing 24 hours, is for light to fresh souther lies to south-easterlies from the Wellington Province southwards, and extending over Taranaki and Hawke's Bay, elsewhere light to moderate easterlies to north-easterlies prevailing. The weather will be cloudy to overcast almost generally. Intermittent rain is likely from Taranaki and Hawke's Bay southwards, and later rain will gradually extend northwards to most of the country. Conditions will improve over the southern half of the South Island. Temperatures will be cool to moderate. Barometers fell considerably over the South Island yesterday, with the passage of a moderate depression, but thejf have risen rapidly again since. A trough of low depression is now lying across the centre of the Dominion and extending to the central Tasman Sea-. Moderate to fresh north-easterlies to northerlies prevailed yesterday while a change to southerlies had advanced this morning to beyond Cook Strait. Fair to warm weather has continued in the Auckland Province, but good rains have occurred practically everywhere else. In the southern half of the North Island rain was still falling this morning. Totals reported are: Cape Egmont, 97 points; Foxton, 86 points; Farewell Spit, 71 points; Westport, 298 points; Arthur's Pass, 161 points; Queenstown, 63 points; Invercargill, 32 points. Temperatures were mild yesterday but have become cooler with the southerly change. A moderate north-easterly breeze and cloudy weather prevailed in Auckland yesterday. The maximum and minimum temperatures were respectively 72.4 degrees and 64.5 degrees. At 9 a.m. today the weather was sunny. There was a gentle westerly wind. At Wellington there was rain yesterday, and, while light-and intermittent in the morning, it set in steadily and more heavily about 2 p.m., and continued until about midnight, accompanied by fresh to strong northwesterly winds. There was5 an inn provement after midnight, but following a change of wind to a light southerly at about 5 a.m., misty rain began again, the falls amounting to 75 'points. The maximum temperature was 60 degrees, and the minimum ,55.6 degrees. Sunshine was nil.

At Christchurch yesterday the weather was overcast all day with intermittent rain in the early morning, A moderate north-easterly wind prevailed. Temperatures were cold but warm in the late afternoon and evening, the maximum being 73 degrees, and the minimum 53.7 degrees. A southerly change occurred at 8 p.m., and a drizzle which commenced overnight was still falling at 9 a.m. today, the amount recorded being 13 points.

Overcast skies have been the rule in Dunedin. The weather was showery yesterday at 2 p.m., and the wind changed from the north-east to the south. The rainfall at the Heads was 37 points. This morning the weather was still dull and cool, with a light breeze. .