WEATHER CHANGE

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 February 1947, Page 5

WEATHER CHANGE

COLD TEMPERATURES AND SNOW RAIN WELCOME ON COAST After a month of unusually warm sunshine with little rain, the West Coast late yesterday afternoon experienced a sudden change to comparatively low temperatures. i The weather was fine up to 4 o’clock. Heavy clouds soon came up from the south and light rain began to fall. The temperature, which was 72 at 4 o’clock, had dropped to 66 degrees by 5.30, and to 54 at 9 o’clock. At midnight the temperature was 51 degrees, but the lowest, 49, was recorded this morning at 9 o’clock. „ , , Snow is reported from Canterbury and up to noon to-day five inches of snow covered highways in the Arthur’s Pass district. Snow was reported to be still falling between the mountains and Springfield. The Southern Alps were coated with fresh snow this morning. During last night one and a hall inches of rain fell in Grey mouth, but iiY most parts of the district this was more than welcome. Tanks that have been almost empty for several weeks were refilled. - The sudden change is expected to be only temporary, and this afternoon temperatures became w’armer and the overcast sky was broken by patches of blue in the south-east. A report from the Evening Star s Reefton correspondent this morning stated that a sequence of 32 days of sunny weather and warm temperatures was broken last evening when steady rain commenced at 11 o’clock. By this morning 0.96 inches had fallen.