THE WEATHER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 21 May 1934, Page 5

THE WEATHER

To-day’s North Island Report. Overcast conditions were reported this morning at, Auckland and Wellington, but, blue skies prevailed elsewhere in the North Island. Light, variable breezes were general. The "barometer bad coin-, nicured a falling movement Temperatures at. 9 o’clock were: Auckland 57; degrees, Tauranga 56. Opoliki 48. East-; Gape and Napier 53. Gisborne 55, and; Wellington 50. Moderate or smooth sdasj were reported everywhere. Last Night’s Forecast A moderate westerly depression is moving off New Zealand and an anticyclone is approaching from the westward. The latter at present is centred; over south-east Australia. Winds: South-westerly, moderate generally and fresh at places in the far south and along the east coast. Seas (N.Z. waters): A considerable southerly swell south of East Cape; elsewhere moderate. Eastern Tasman: Moderate southwest winds, moderate seas. Weather:' Mainly fair to cloudy; some scattered showers or misty rain likely, especially along the. east coast and in the far north and south; cool temperatures. Midday Forecast. General inference. —Pressure is still rather low east of the. Dominion, but an anticyclone is approaching from the Tasman Sea.

Forecast. —Light to moderate southwest to west winds. Weather fair, mild and Jiazv. Seas moderate.