METEOROLOGICAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 248, 15 October 1918, Page 1

METEOROLOGICAL

JTUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1918

THE SUN. Bose to-day 5.11; sets 6.15. Risese- to-morrow 5-l(T; sets 6.16. TEMPEBATUBE IN SHAJ>K_ Yesterday: /Maximum. 53; minimum 65; mean- "56£. .AAINFALL. 'For 24 lionm preceding * *-™- today: 0.8 l inch xjUE MOON. (Calculated N.Z. Mean Time.) "" U. H. M. New Moon. 5 10 14 p.m. First Quarter. 14 2 32 a.m. Fall. Moon .-....-,;.21 U 31 am Last Quarter '27 4 9 a.m. WIND. Direction asd* nature of wind •*■ noon wind: X.E*"- *>»" -'-"-' *j BABOMETER. •Yesterday 9 a.m. 29.71. To-day 9alm. 29.16; noon 29.09: HOMILTJY. OF THE AlMOSi , ±u£BE Mr T. C. C. Scott (Stoke) reports as follows on the humidity of the atmosphere Tb-day 85 per cent. Yesterday: 90 per cent. ~l mJ jMt^lfft"*"*V * v e.A. 1 ifER- 1 . ■'„ •»-*TVi>pfon- taJren a* a a.n* - .*l Auckland—wind N.W.; bar. 29.55;' tier.- 62; bine sky. l\Vellin§ton-4-wind X.W. : ffaar. 29.28. ther. 60; cloudy. - .Westport-frwind X. : bar. 29.18; ther. 58;.-blue\\sky and clouds. ' Ghristcbnrchr-7-wind X.N.E. : bar. 28.96; ther. €6; blue skv. N.W.:" bar. 28.77; tbcr. 59; (blue *ky and clouds. Braff—wind X.W. ; oar. 28.81; ther. 68; foggy.

The indications ■ are for westerly ■winds, /heav> rain and banking bv west to south. . The weather will proba. •frove- very boisterous. Heavy rain is . to be expected with rivers flooded. The barometer has -a falling tendency rising after aboub 16 Ihoaraj •weather will pruoably iconic colder; tea -very heavy in strait.