WEATHER FORECAST

Evening Star, Issue 23564, 1 May 1940, Page 6

WEATHER FORECAST

FAIR, BUT UNSETTLED The following weather forecast was issued at noon by the Meteorological Office, Wellington, covering the southern districts:— A weak anti-cyclone covers New Zea* land, while a complex disturbance, is located over New South Wales. Light to moderate and variable winds, with northerlies gradually predominating and later freshening. Weather fair at first, but unsettled conditions extending from the west during to-morrow* Temperatures cool, with frosts to-night. Seas slight to moderate. LOCAL REPORT. Maximum temperature to-day, 56.5 deg. Maximum yesterday (24 hours) 53.5 deg. Minimum to-day, SO.odeg. Minimum yesterday, 44.9 deg. . Barometric pressure at 1 p.m., fall* ing at 29.95 in (1,014 millibars). Gentle west-south-westerly breeze. AT OTHER CENTRES. The following information is abridged! from the report issued by the Meteorological Office this morning:— Temp. Weather. deg. Auckland— Overcast; calm. 58 Wellington— ' Overcast, hazy; calm. ,51 Christchurch — Blue sky, hazy; calm. 40 Timaru — Blue sky, hazy; calm. 49 Oamaru— Blue sky; calm. 44 Greymouth— Overcast; gentle easterly. 50 Nuggets— Blue sky, cloudy; gentle west-south-westerly. Rain, .02in. 47 BluffOvercast; fresh west-south-westerly. * 49