THE WEATHER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19550, 4 February 1938, Page 3

THE WEATHER

To-day’s North Island Report Overcast and unsettled conditions were reported throughout the North Island this morning, and moderate to fresh easterly breezes were general. The barometer had fallen steadily since yesterday. Temperatures at !) o’clock were: Auckland 07 degrees, Tauranga and Opotiki 70, East Cape, Gisborne and Napier 09, and Wellington 08. Rough seas were reported at Castlepoint and in the Bay of Plenty; elsewhere moderate or smooth. Last Night’s Forecast An intense anticyclone is still centred cast of the South Island, but pressure is falling in the north and is low over most of Australia and the western Tasman. The forecast is for easterly to north-easterly winds predominating, moderate to strong and rising to gale force in places north of Kawhia and East Cape, elsewhere, light to moderate, but later freshening. Seas in New Zealand waters will be rather rough to rough north of East Cape, elsewhere slight to moderate. In the eastern Tasman Sea, there will he moderate to strong north-easterly winds, with moderate to rather rough seas. The weather will be fair, warm and humid in most districts, but with much cloud in northern and north-eastern portions of the North Island and scattered rains, morning mist or fog in many places, especially eastern districts. Midday Forecast

General inference.—An anticyclone is still centred east of the South Island, but a cyclone of moderate depth is located between Cape Maria Van Diemen and Norfolk Island. Pressure is low also over southeastern Australia.

Forecast.--Moderate but freshening winds from between south-east and north-east. Weather cloudy to overeast, and rain developing, with some heavy falls. Temperatures warm. Seas slight to moderate, but rising.