HAIL IN NOVEMBER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22261, 8 November 1935, Page 12

HAIL IN NOVEMBER

UNSEASONABLE WEATHER SUNSHINE .AND SHOWERS SNOW AT NATIONAL PARK The unusual experience of being caught in a miniature hailstorm in November surprised many people in Auckland on two occasions yesterday. The weather was exceptionally cbld for so late in the year, and there was a strong south-westerly wind. • Brief periods of brilliant sunshine were interspersed with heavy showers throughout tho day, but it was not until late in tho afternoon that the first hail was reported. A cold shower that swept across tho city about 4 o'clock was accompanied for a few minutes by hail. Half an hour later the sun was shining from an almost clear sky, but toward sunset the clouds were again heavily banked oyer the city, and there was further rain last night. The second hailstorm occurred in Broadway, Newmarket, 'at 8.40 last night, and was severe tho few minutes it lasted. It was of a local nature, and in Khyber Pass, a few hundred yards from where the hail was heaviest, road was dry. Tho unseasonable weather caught many people in tho city ujiprepared, without overcoats and wearing light clothing. Tho barometer, which fell slightly in the morning, rose agair. toward noon, and was steady at 29.70 in. throughout the afternoon. It rose Ias f night, and the reading midnight as 29.80 in. A defect that developed in an elec-tric-power cable in Parnell Rise early last evening, possibly due to tho wot weather, impaired the electric lights in a section of the district for nearly two hours. Tho fault was located and rectified about 8.15. Snow commenced to fall in tho higher parts of Tongariro National Park early yesterday morning, the fall extending to the foot of the mountains. Although occasional flakes fell in the vicinity of the Chateau they generally melted before reaching tho ground. The weather cleared about 3.30 in the afternoon and tho snow was followed by bright sunshine. At eight o'clock last night there was still a cold southerly wind and the thermometer stood at 38 degrees at the Chateau. HEAVY SNOW IN SOUTH MACKENZIE COUNTRY SWEPT [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] TIMARU, Thursday A heavy snowstorm swept tho Mac-, kenzie country last night and it is feared that its severity will have serious effects on up-country lambing. Snow in November in South Canterbury is quite exceptional.