WEATHER FORECAST

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1928, Page 5

WEATHER FORECAST

TO BE MORE ELABORATE

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, October 26

A valuable extension of the functions of the Meteorological Branch of the Department of .Scientific Industrial Research will take effect next week. Tile Director of the Meteorological Office (Dr E. Kidson) to-day stated that, starting on November Ist, a, change will he made in the system of broadcasting the weather reports. The broadcast from the Auckland Radio Station will lie dropped, hut a fuller report will be issued at 9 p.m. (standard time) from the Wellington Radio Station. This issue, addition to the forecast and summary as now transmitted, will include reports ol the conditions at 4 p.m,--at thirteen New Zealand stations, also Norfolk .Island, the Chatham Islands, Sydney and Hobart. Not only will more precise information of the conditions over the whole area he available, hut the reports given will be sufficient to enable a satisfactory weather chart to he drawn. Thus, anyone with an elementary knowledge of meteorology will he able to supplement the official forecast, and to understand more fully the subsequent changes. Forms have been prepared which will facilitate the taking down of the reports as received, while the map on the hack of the form will enable anyone so desiring to plot them and draw the weather chart.