FINE AND WARM

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 2, 3 January 1941, Page 6

FINE AND WARM

LESS SETTLED LATER

Special forecast for Wellington:—

Variable winds at first, but northerlies prevailing again tomorrow and gradually freshening.

A continuance of fine and warm weather, but some showers are likely on Sunday.

The general forecast for the Dominion as a whole is for moderate to fresh southerly winds at first, but there will be northerlies again tomorrow about and south of Cook Strait, and these will be freshening in exposed positions. The weather will be fair to fine and warm at flrst, with morning low cloud or fog in eastern districts, but it will become unsettled tomorrow in the far south-west of the South Island, with intermittent rain developing from the west.

Pressure has remained high over the New Zealand area, but has fallen temporarily in the South Island with the passage of a trough which lay this morning across the Cook Strait area. Behind the trough fresh southerlies are blowing, but winds otherwise have been light to moderate and variabl^with westerly directions predominating. The weather has been fair to fine almost generally, but there were isolated thunderstorms and a few showers yesterday afternoon in the far south, and a light drizzle was fall in c this morning in Otago. Temperature? have been mild to warm.

It was cloudy most of yesterday in Christchurch and Dunedin, and a few showers fell in the latter city. Auckland and Wellington, on the other hand had fine weather, temperatures in the capital city ranging between 72.2 and 59 degrees.