METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19248, 13 February 1937, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

SUNRISE AND SUNSET STANDARD TIME

TIDES AT GISBORNE WHARF STANDARD TIME

PHASES OP THE MOON Last Quarter, Fobruary -1, 11.34 p.m. New Moon, February 11. 7.04 p.m. First Quarter, February IK, 3.80 p.m. Full Moon, February 25, 7.13 p.m. BAROMETER READINGS

At S a.m. yesterday .. • • I ' ; '-J l 'f n At S p.m. yesterday . . • • 29..»0in At 8 a.m. to-day .. ■• 29.41 In BAINFALL AT GISEOSNE

For 24 hours lo 0 a.m. .. O.OOin Total for. month to date .. 1 . 11 Average, for Fobruary •• 3.47 in

THE WEATHER

To-day's North Island Report

Blue skies were reported this morning between Napier and Opotiki. bnl overcast conditions prevailed elsewhere m the North Island. Light to strong westerly breezes were general. I lie barometer had continued the falling movement. Temperatures at f) o'clock were: Auckland 60 degrees. Tauranga -b. Opotiki 67.. Kasl Cape and Gisborne bd. Napier 65, and Wellington 51. Lough seas were reported at Cape Campbell. Wellington. Cape L'alliscr and Lasl tape: elsewhere moderate or smooth. Last Night's Forecast

A number of deep active secondary depressions were crossing the South Island to-day. Condition* were disturbed also in the tropics to the north. An intense anticyclone is still centred over Tasmania. Winds: Noith-we.-t to southWest, later becoming more general southerly; moderate to strong generally,

and in places, of gale love**. Stas: Hough north of Farewell Spit and m the Cook and Fovea ox Strait, areas; considerable swell on the west coast ol the South Island : elsewhere moderate, later rising south of Fast Cape. Fastern lasnnn • Strong south-westerly winds to gales, rough' seas. Weather: Unsettled, with rain at times in most districts: some heavv falls probable over the South Island, with thunder and hail in Temperatures becoming eooler. Midday Forecast. (tenoral inference. —A deep depression is located east of the nonunion and pressure is everywhere low. An ntmeyclone covers the Tasman Sea. however, and barometers are now rising. < oiulitions are disturbed in the tropics to the north, a cyclone being centred in the New Hebrides. This may a fleet northern New Zealand after a few days. Forecast. —Moderate to strong southvest to southerly winds. Inter rising in places to rale force. Weather cold, smiallv and changeable, with passing showers, heavy in places, and possibly some hail. Seas rough.

BROADCASTING

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