HOLIDAY WEATHER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17141, 22 April 1919, Page 4

HOLIDAY WEATHER.

FIRST FOUR DAYS DULL.

ABSENCE OF SUNSHINE. The weather conditions in Auckland during the Easter holidays were for the most part dull and threatening, and on Good Friday and the following day there were light falls of rain. Last year, when the annual festival fell about three weeks earlier, there was a heavier rainfall, hut Easter Sunday afternoon and Monday saw a considerable improvement, bright sunshine replacing the overcast skies of the preceding days. Last Friday rain seemed to be impending all the morning, but it was not until mid-afternoon that any wet was experienced, and then, after two or three very light showers, fine, though overcast, conditions succeeded. These continued until ear'y on Saturday forenoon, but about mid-Jay one or two showers fell. The afternoon was cloudy, but not wet. On Sunday the same lack of sunshine characterised the greater part of the day, but the rain held off. Dry, but cloudy, weather, with an occasional slight sprinkling of —scarcely appreciable—was experienced yesterday. Throughout the four days the temperature remained fairly cool, the prevailing wind being south-west. The barometer reading on Friday and Saturday was 30.00 in, and on Sunday 30.20 in, while yesterday it went back to SO.OOin. Last year the wind on Good Friday was in the southwest, hacking to the north-east on the Saturday. Both days were dull and threatening, but no rain fell until midnight on the latter day. Rain was experienced throughout the forenoon on the Sunday, but the afternoon was characterised by bright sunshine, which lasted throughout the next day also. The total rainfall for the first four days of the holidays this year, ending at midnight yesterday, according to the Herald eauge, was .07in as compared with 1.12 in for the corresponding period last year.

RAIN IX DUNEDIN.

[by telegraph.—press ASSOCIATION*.]

DUNEDJX. Monday. Steadv rain' set in last night and continued lightly, hut without "interruption, to-day. The sports were postponed until tomorrow.