METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19240, 4 February 1937, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

SUNRISE AND SUNSET STANDARD TIME Rises. Sets.

STANDARD TIME High Water. Low Water, r..in. pan. nan. pan,

-PHASES OF TIIE MOON

BAROMETER READINGS At S n.m. yesterday .. .• .>O.l *»{•! At X pan. yesterday . • • • RO-ORiji At 8 n.m. to-day .. •• «0.12 in RAINFALL AT GISBORNE For 2-1 hours to !1 a.in. . . h.O'dn Total Cor month to date .. Av era fee for February .. 2.-tun

THE WEATHER To-day’s North Island Report IlliK' sliies were reported this. morning at .Auclchiml and in tlio May ol Plenty, hut- overcast conditions prevailed el.-e----wliere. in the North Island. Light to nioderiito southerly hree/.es were general. The barometer had commenced to rise again. Temperatures at 9 o clock were: Auckland and Gisborne 66 degrees. Tanranga amt Napier 67. Opotiki Oj. least Cape 66. and ‘Wellington 57. Moderate or smooth seas were reported e\ci\where. Last Night’s Forecast An anticyclone, still lies across the northern portion oi the North Island. A depression of very slight intensity passing' over the south. A J rush anticyclone is advancing across the Tasman. Winds : Light to fresh north-westerlies at first over the North Island, Imt southerlies over the .South: southerlies becoming •reneral within 24 hours and freshening on parts of the east coast. Seas (New Zealand waters): Rather rough about, Cook and Fovcnux Straits.; elsewhere slight to moderate, hut increasing! on parts of the east coast. Kaslern lasman Sea • Li'dit, to moderate southerly to sout'h-easterlv winds ami slight to moderate seas. Weather: Isolated showers probable in the South Island and western districts in the north, hut weather, lor flic most part fair to fine, with moderate tempera! tires. Midday Forecast (tenoral inference. A shallow secondary depression is passing noi l hwards over tlm Dominion to-day and an anticyclone of moderate intensity is following it. Forecast. Moderate to Iresh southerly winds, decreasing to-morrow. Weather cloudy to overcast, with light rain in places at- first, more especially on the coast, hut, later improving gradually. Seas moderate to rather rough.

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