METEOROLOGICAL
FORECAST FOR AUCKLAND FAIR TO FINE AND MILD The Government meteorologist issued to the Herald last evening the follow- > ing forecast for the Auckland Province: • —Moderate . south - westerly winds. I Weather mainly fair to fine and mild. . Seas rough on the west coast, otherwise slight. Further outlook: Settled. Uarometer, midnight 30.00 in. (1016 millibars) Hid night Thursday 29.88 in. (1011 millibars) RAINFALL RECORD Fall in City (Heihld sauce): '24 hours ended'midnight January 31 .01 in. Total for.January up to 0 a.m. yesterday (Albert Park gauge) .. 4.23 in, Average rainfall for January .. 3,11 in. Record ;ainfall for January (1030) . 8.40 in. Painfall for year to date . . . . 4.23 in. Average annual rainfall years) . 44.74 in, SUN, MOON AND TIDES 6un—To-day, rises, r>,3o a.m.; sels, 7.0:1 p.m.; to-morrow, rises, 5.37 a.m.; sets, 7.32 p.m. Moon—First quarter. Tuesday, 11.42 p.m.; full, February 12. 12.20 p.m. To-day To-morrow Tliarh "Water— a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Auckland .. 10.5.-, 11.15 11.35 11. s<i . Jlanukau Heads . 1.0!) 1.30 1.50 2.10 Oaoliunga- .. 2.0!) 2.30 2.50 3.10 GENERAL SITUATION Tho Government meteorologist advised last evening that an anti-cyclone centred near Lord Howe Island covered the Tasman So a and New Zealand. A v.eak disturbance lay over southeastern Australia. Forecast: Light to moderate south-westerly winds over the northern half of the North Island; elsewhere moderate to fresh westerlies, later tending northerly or northwesterly over the South Island and hecoming strong in exposed positions. Seas ratlipr rough on the west coast and about Foveaux Strait, but moderating; elsewhere slight or moderate. Further isolated showers in South Westland and on the Southland coast. Elsewhere fair to fine. Temperatures . rising generally.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23879, 1 February 1941, Page 8
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