THE WEATHER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19196, 12 June 1924, Page 11

THE WEATHER.

After more than a week of ideal winter weather, with delightful sunny days, and but little wind, a, falling barometer yesterday gave warning of a change. Dark andheavy clouds gathered between 5 and 6 P.m. ami a little later rain commenced falling and continued steadily for some hours. Tho sjiell of line weather which has been experienced during tlio last three months lias been phenomenal, the total fall last month amounting to only 2.9601 n. Aucklanders, who sometimes decry the climate of tho southern cities, experienced a fall of 10.42 in in May, and other northern cities also experienced very wet months. Tho total rainfall experienced in Auckland from January to tho end of May was 33.48 in, as compared with 8.75 in for tho same period- in Dunedin. (From Our Own Correspondent.) CROMWELL, June 11. The weather inland is exceptionally mild and anything similar in the early winter months lias not been known for many years. So far there has been only an occasional hard frost with little or no snow on tho mountains. For the new settlers on Mount Pisa and for sheep farmers generally it is ideal.