MIXED WEATHER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20897, 12 June 1931, Page 12

MIXED WEATHER.

DIFFERENCE IN SMALL AREA. The unusual weather experienced in Auckland during the early part of the week demonstrated the curious differences in climate that may exist within a few miles. While the country wasjwhito with frost as far north as Whangarei, there was none on the Titirangi and Waitakere hills higher than Glen Eden, which is on ono of the foot spurs, of the Titirangi range. On Tuesday morning, when dense fogs were experienced, dwellers on the ranges basked in bright sunshine, and looked down on a white sea that extended as far as the eye could see out in Hau raki Gulf, but the summit of Rangitoto stood up like a small island, and the Coromandel Peninsula appeared like a fairy mountain range riding in the air. Nearer at hand the smoke from a railway train ascended through the fog blanket and travelled along like a smoke screen from a ship at sea. A wind from the south causes many curious features on the western hills. A warm calm prevails on the northern face of Titirangi and on the east face of the Waitakere hills, and motorists ascending at night when there is frost below suddenly find their wind screens obscured on both sides as they enter the belt of warmer air. Fog invariably drifts from the Manukau across to the Waitemata, and the hill slopes less than 12 miles distant are in a different atmosphere.