METEOROLOGICAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23773, 28 September 1940, Page 10

METEOROLOGICAL

| FORECAST. FOR AUCKLAND £j FINE SPEIL CONTINUING ~ The Government .meteorologist issued to the Herald last evening the following forecast for-the Auckland Province :—Light to moderate westerly winds. Weather fair and mild. Seas flight on east coast; moderate 011 west. Barometer, midnight 30.10 in. (1019 millibars) itidniffht Thursday 30.18 in. (1022 millibars) RAINFALL RECORD Fall in City (Herald Kauue): hoars ended niidnicht Sept. -7 .02in. Total for September up to !) a.m. yesterday (Albert Park trance) .. 1.71 n. lAveraee rainfall for September .. 3.831n. Record rainfall for September (1925) 7.84 in. Jtaicfall for year to date . . .. 30.86' m. annual rainfall (Si years) . 44.81 in. SUN, MOON AND TIDES San—Rises, 5.JV2 a. 111,; sets, .*>.•">•-! p.m. Moon —New, "Wednesday, J2.-IJ a.m.; first quarter, October S, <>. liS p.m. To-day To-morrow Hieh Water— a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Auckland .. L'::_ Mnnukau Heads o.:W H.OO .. > • Onehunga ' .. 7.00 b-io GENERAL SITUATION The Government meteorologist ad•Vised last evening that an anti-cyclone •was still located in the north, "while ;a depression was moving on to southern New Zealand from the Tasnian .Sea. was rising over Tasmania. Forecast: Light to fresh north-westerly •jto westerly winds predominating, but •a change "to moderate southerlies set■ting in in the tar south to-night and ■probably extending over the southern [half of the South Island during to- — morrow. Seas mainly slight or moderate, but rising somewhat in the laranaki Bight and about Cook and ' Foveaux Straits. Weather tair and liuld in eastern districts and in the Jsoith Island; unsettled 011 the west const ot the South Island, with some further -rain and showers, later extending up the west coast as far as Taranaki and up the east coast as far as Canterbury. Temperatures becoming cooler 111 ,the south.