WEATHER FORECAST

Evening Star, Issue 23377, 21 September 1939, Page 10

WEATHER FORECAST

UNSETTLED—RAIN COMING The following weather forecast wt« issued at noon by the Meteorological Office. Wellington, covering the southern district—Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Tapanui, Winton, Invercargill. Riverton, Orepuki, Halfmoon Bay An extensive depression is advancing on to the Dominion from the west, the lowest pressure being to the south. Forecast: Moderate to strong northwest winds, changing to south-west _by morning. Weather unsettled, rain becoming general with heavy falls in tha west. A considerable fall in. temperature likely to-morrow. Seas moderate north of Nuggets, otherwise rough. LOCAL REPORT. Maximum temperature to-dayj 65.7 deg. , , Maximum yesterday (24 hoursjg 66.3 deg. Minimum to-day. 51.9 deg. Minimum yesterday, 49.2 deg. Barometric pressure at 1 p.m.' falling at 29.7 in (1,006 millibars). Light north-easterly breeze. AT OTHER CENTRES. The following information is abridge! from the report issued by the Meteorological Office at 9 this; morning ' . Temp* Weather. deg. Auckland — . Blue sky; slight northerly breeze. 51 Wellington— Overcast; passing showers in dis- . trict; moderate, north-north-westerly. Rain, ,03in. 5f Christchurch — - Overcast; hazy; slight east-north-easterly, 5a Timaru— ’ Overcast; hazy; light northeasterly. *45 Oamaru— Overcast; light north-westerly. 47] BluffDrizzling rain; slight; west-north-westerly. SO Nuggets— Overcast; slight northerly. 48 Greymouth— Steady rain; overcast; moderate northerly. Rain, .19in. . ’ 51