METEOROLOGICAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18702, 7 May 1924, Page 7

METEOROLOGICAL.

'•. :t _ >; - ■ ■■ ■- -v." - - . . .y, TO-DAY'S FORECAST. GOVERNMENT REPORT. : The. Government, meteorologist reported last right as follows Present indications are for moderate to strong south-easterly to north-easterly winds northwa,rd of Hokitika and LytteT'oon, increasing north-' east • to north-west winds elsewhere. Weather fair to cloudy generally. The barometer has a falling tendency in the south. ' " ■. HERALD SPECIAL FORECAST. Tho following vreather forecast for 24 hours from 7 a.m,' to-day was supplied to us by Mr. H. M. Vincent last evening: V" Fine leather is likely to continue over most of the Dominion,' under , the influence ! of an energetic anticyclone, or high barometric pressure system. Easterly to north-easterly winds, moderate to istrorur, prevailing, and gi ring place to . variable: and moderate breezes. Seas moderating. Fine -weather will probably extend over the remainder of the present week. •: Barometer, midnight,; 30.25 m. ; steady. itAINFAL RECORD. Fall in City for 24 hours ended midnight, May 6 (Hbralu jfuuee) ..■■■' .COin. Total or May up to 9 a.m., Mon- • day (Albert Park gauge) , . . . ,83!n, Averapj rainfall for May .. .. 4.42 in. Kam to date this year # . . . 2!4.091n« YESTERDAY'S WEATHER, The following' official report was.issiued at 4 p.m. yesterday:—

SUN, MOON AND TIDES. Rises, 6.37 a.m.; sets, 4.ES p.m. Moon— t quarter. Monday, 1.44 p.m.: full, May 19,' 5.',!3 a.m. •:*;*- \ High Wa ,- ,er-- a.m. p.m. Auckland . . .. 9.7 9.26 Manukau Heads . . II.G 31.25 Onehunga Wharf . . 12.5 12.£G Y

Station. Wind. "Weather. Bar. Thor. Cape Maria. S.B., fresh, oloudy SO.la 59 Russell, S.E., fresh. squally . . . 30,16 66 Manukau Hda., S. bre&ze, fine . . 30.20 66 Auckland, S., light, fair . .. 30.18 64 Tauranga, «■' frt i sh ' fine 11 •• 30.17 63 East. Cnpe & gale, squally . . 30.15 03 Itborn*. b.S.E breeze, overcast 30.31 £0 I ort Ahuriri, N.B., breeze, o'csgI; 30.37 66 Castlepoiiit. B.W., light, overcast . — 54 Wellington, S., light, fair . . 30.31 66 New Plymouth. S.E., It., fines .. 30.19 (',0 Cape Ej.raont. B.E.,, freah, fine . . 30.26 56 Wanganm. S.E., breeze, fair , . 30.33 59 Farewell Spit, £,. Hight ,fine .. 30.36 56 Cape Foul wind. N light, fine . . 30.25 63 Greyxnoiith, &E light, fine ...... 30.88 60 Stephen Island, S.E.. fresh, cloudv 30.25 52 Cape Campbell, S.E., light, fine \ 30.20 55 Kaikours,. IS., fresri. fino . , . . — 57 Akaroa Light., N.W., fresh, firm 30.20 57 Port. Chnlmers t N.I!., light; fine . — 57 NugeeKN... light, fine .. .. _ 57 Bluff, W., light, line .. .. 30.14 56 I