THE WEATHER

Southland Times, Issue 22916, 15 June 1936, Page 6

THE WEATHER

SOUTHLAND FORECAST. (Special to The Times.) Wellington, June 14. Following is the Dominion Observatory’s special weather forecast for Southland:— Moderate to strong west to northwest winds backing to southerlies on Monday and increasing to gale force in places. Weather unsettled with some rain and on the ranges snow. A cold change later with hail in places. Seas moderate to rather rough and later rising. Following is the Dominion forecast:— Weather changeable but mainly cloudy to overcast with intermittent rain and mist or fog at places. A cold change spreading from the south to-morrow with some hail and on the high levels snow. General Situation.—A depression of moderate intensity is crossing New Zealand to-day and another is following it rather closely across the Tasman Sea. An anti-cyclone of considerable intensity covers Australia. Winds.—Northerlies at first over the eastern portions of the North Island, but otherwise west to south-west prevailing. Later winds again tending northerly, force moderate to strong. A second change to southerlies of strong to gale force in the far north tomorrow. ' Seas, New Zealand waters.—Rather rough on the west coast and about Cook and Foveaux Straits; elsewhere slight to moderate Eastern Tasman Sea.—Moderate to fresh south-west to north-west winds, backing later to strong southerlies. Seas moderate but becoming rough to-morrow. The weather in Invercargill over the week-end was, for the most part, fine. On Saturday it was dull and threatening, but no ram fell until late in the evening; yesterday it was fine and mild for the middle of June. At one o’clock this morning the weather was fine and calm. The barometer readings for Friday, Saturday and Sunday have been as follows: This morning (rising) 29.71 in Saturday 29.74 in Friday 30.06 in