METEOROLOGICAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 19, 23 January 1940, Page 10

METEOROLOGICAL

MOON FOR JANUARY. Last quarter. 2nd. 4.26 p.iu ; new moon, lOtb 1 23\ a.m.: first quarter. 18th. 551 a.m ; full moon 25th. 10 5? v m (Standard Time.) TUESDAY. JANUARY 23. 1940. The Sun.—Rose 'today 4.44 a.m.; sets 7.22 p.m. Rises tomorrow 4.45 a.m.; sets 7.21 p.m. (Standard Time.) Bright Sunshine.— Yesterday: Morning, 1.4 hours; afternoon, 6.5 hours; total. 7.9 hours. Temperature at 9 a.m., 67.8 degrees. ■ Relative humidity at 9 a.m., 73 per cent. Maximum temperature yesterday, 70.2 degrees; minimum temperature last night 61.0 degrees; minimum temperature on grass. 58.31 degrees. ■ . > Mean wind velocity for 24 hours ending a.m. today, 14 m.p.h. ■ Rainfall in previous 24 hours, nil; rainfall to date this mouth, 2.34 in; rainfall to date this year, 2.34 in; rainfall average for lanuary. 2.89 in • rainfall average rrom lanuary tto the pnd of January 2 89in Barometer, 9 a.m., 1011.1 millibars. SYNOPSIS OF LAST 24 HOURS. Pressure has remained high to {lie east and north-east of New Zealand and low to the south. Consequently, winds have been mainly from between north and west; force light to moderate generally but fresh to strong on parts of the west coast and about Cook Strait. The weather ' was cloudy to overcast yesterday morning and scattered rain was falling in many places. Conditions gradually Improved, however, and the afternoon .was fine and mild. Light to moderate north-east to north-west winds predominate today, thje weather being fair to fine. FORECAST Winds. —Light to moderate north-easterly to north-westerly, becoming fresh to strong at times in exposed positions. ■ Seas.—Rather rough about Cook Strait and south of. Greymouth; otherwise mainly slight, but rising somewhat on the east coast of the Auckland Peninsula. vyeather.—For the most part fair to fine and warm, but becoming unsettled later in thoj far north and in the far south-west, with | scattered rains developing. t