THE WEATHER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5760, 4 May 1880, Page 6

THE WEATHER.

§418-30 8.11. t-At 10 0 a.m. (29th). t Wind V>'. II N.E. Dull and warm, with occasional slight showers ; barometric pressure and temperatare bath much above average; wind very Tariable in direction, moatlj light. Mean day temperature lower than in laat week ; but mean night do. 3 degrees higher ; and approximate mean accordingly o*7 in advance. Wet bnlb will average I*2 degrees higher ; making an increase in the humidity o£ the air, which has risen from 65.3 to 75 "3. Solar radiation mean 117'4 (G degrees full), into maximum 124 5 on the 27th ; terrestrial do. mean4s"B (2£ degrees rise), with minimnm 45'S on night of the same. All these figures are markedly in excess of those of the corresponding week of last year. Rain-fall very trifling, light showers in night and early morning, supplemented by dawny miats; weather often threatening, but not as yet breaking up with, the heavy rain so much desired.

Wind mostly light; but very fresh on the 2Gth, averaging over 17 miles per hour for the 24 houra previous; from almost every direction except S.E. Barometric pressure very uniform from day to day, with a slow tendency downwards ; the general elevation of the mercury still unusually high. El win B. Dickson", Government Observer.

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