METEOROLOGICAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18021, 21 February 1922, Page 5

METEOROLOGICAL.

TO-DAY'S FORECAST.

GOVERNMENT REPORT.

The Government Meteorologist reported last night as follov?s: —Present indications are for moderate to strong easterly winds, backing to northerlies shortly Weather will be changeable, cloudy to overcast conditions prevailing at wimes with scattered rainfall in districts with an easterly aspect. The barometer has a falling tendency.

MR. C. L. WRAGGE'S FORECAST. The following weather forecast was supplied to us by Mr. Clement L. Wragge at 8 o'clock last evening:—The nucleus of a largo high-pressure system, the sudden incoming of which stopped the expected rain, is now over Westland. Its isobars, like the slopes of the mountain top, overlap the wholo country, while tropical low-pressure waves most surely exist between tho North Cape, the Kermadecs, Fiji, and Norfolk Island, and Antarctic low pressures are in the neighbourhood of the Chatham Islands. In the circumstances, fair to cloudy weather is likely generally, but in coastal districts between Hawko's Bay, the East Cape, and Cape Brett, some rain is likely, because the high-pressure, acting as a condonsing dynamo to the tropical vapours, must necessarily yield some precipitation over tho eastern districts just mentioned. Winds betweon east and south-east, east-north-east, and north-north-east. It appears likely that within three days the high-pressure will have shown signs of breaking up, but only then need tho welcome change to the generally rainy type be expected. Soa rising with decrease of latitude from Tokomaru Bay.