CHANGEABLE WEATHER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18706, 12 May 1924, Page 12

CHANGEABLE WEATHER

■;■>;•■. ;,;.——— o : _-. "^-'R SHOWERY WEEK-END. J SOME HEAVY DOWNPOURS. 1 The weather at Auckland during the S1 week-end was very changeable and un- : ';':,';I settled. The conditions at times were - very boisterous and - more or less vet. [ The showery weather which coram I on Friday evening continued almost with- . 1 out ■ intermission during the early hours / // I of Saturday, when rail fell in torrential \ | downpours at intervals. The climax was v*: I reached-shortly after 6 a.m., when the 1 wind blew strongly from the westward, accompanied by heavy rain and thunder. ';;| The storm was only of short duration, and y.V)§ after it passed the weather improved, and '-1 the wind moderated to a light; variable ■!; i breeze, changing between north and south- /-j i west. Between 9a.m. and 10 a.m., the -.si sky cleared to the north and the sun shone / | for a short time,■■'and then the conditionsv. v-1 again became threatening. , Toward mid- iffl day there was a recurrence of showery : n weather, rain falling 'at intervals . until •"/'"'"-;'| late at night. I Yesterday morning the condition* im- :| proved again, but-in,,the afternoon there 1 was another recurrence of wet ■ wuather'/ / 1 and' heavy showers were experienced -in 'a I the evening. -; The ? conditions remained ■'■ '*| threatening /to a late hour. "\-\~- ''■•"•;'' j"I /The rainfall for -the 48 hours ending v*;|| midnight, as registered by , the ? Herald i gauge was .94in. : The barometer, - which X was steady at / 30.00 in. on Friday evening, fell after mid- /i : night, and on Saturday ; afternoon the ' - reading 1 was 29.90 in. By yesterday morn- •- ing it had -risen to its former reading of 30.00 in., where 'it remained . practically //I/ steady up ; till a late hour. ?; -■■ : 1