SOUTHERLY WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 121, 18 November 1940, Page 6

SOUTHERLY WEATHER

FURTHER RAIN LIKELY

Special forecast for Wellington:— Strong southerly to south-easterly winds.

Weather continuing dull with further rain. Cooler temperatures.

The general forecast for the Dominion as a whole is for northerly to north-easterly winds over the northern and eastern areas of the North Island. Elsewhere winds will be southerly to south-easterly in direction, and these will probably become general by tomorrow. In the south winds will be moderate in force, but over the remainder of the country they will be fresh to strong, gale force being reached in places. The weather in* the south and south-west of the South Island will be fair, but elsewhere it will be unsettled with widespread rain. Some heavy falls are likely in parts of the central provinces, with some flooding. Temperatures will become cooler. During the weekend a deep cyclonic depression which had developed near Lord Howe Island moved . south-east-ward across the northern Tasman Sea, its centre this morning being to the west of Auckland. Northerly winds predominated at first on Saturday and were mainly moderate in force. On Sunday, however, winds became strong over the northern half of the North Island, gale force being reached in some exposed positions in the far north. Since then south-easterlies have freshened in Taranaki and Wellington, while winds in the South Island have remained light and variable. Saturday's weather was mainly fair to fine, but by Sunday morning it had become unsettled in the far north. By yesterday evening the rain had spread as far south as Cook Strait, numerous falls of over an inch being recorded. In the north the weather had improved by this morning, but meantime the rain had extended southward to Banks Peninsula. Temperatures have been moderate in the south and mild in the north.

In the four main centres on Saturday the weather was mainly fair to fine, with light or fresh northerly winds. Bain was falling in Auckland, however, by Sunday morning, and a strong north-easterly was blowing. Wellington was affected in the afternoon, rain beginning to fall with a light southerly wind. By 9 a.m. today 70 points had been recorded at Kelburn.* Christchurch was affected by the change last night and intermittent rain was falling there this morning. Dunedin's weather has remained fair to fine. Wellington's maximum and minimum temperatures yesterday were 62.9 and 48.8 degrees respectively.