THE WEATHER

Southland Times, Issue 23074, 16 December 1936, Page 4

THE WEATHER

ISOLATED SHOWERS PROBABLE (Special to The Times) Wellington, December 15. Following is the Dominion Observatory’s special weather forecast for Southland: — Moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly winds. Weather for the most part fine, but isolated local showers probable. Cool night temperatures. Seas moderate to rather rough. Following is the Dominion forecast: — Weather still mainly fair to fine, but some isolated local showers probable, more particularly in the far south and in eastern coastal areas. Temperatures becoming colder in the South Island. General situation. —A slight disturbance has been crossing the Dominion today, but the pressure is still generally above normal and a fresh anti-cyclone is advancing across the south Tasman Winds.—Light to moderate and variable, with west to south prevailing, but southerlies shortly becoming more general and freshening, especially on the East Coast of the South Island and about Cook Strait. Seas.—New Zealand waters, slight to moderate, but rising south of Castle-, point and about ■ Cook and Foveaux Straits; eastern Tasman Sea, light to moderate and variable winds at first in the northern portion, otherwise southerlies or south-easterlies prevailing and freshening in the southern portion. Seas slight to moderate, but becoming rather rough in the southern portion. The weather in Invercargill yesterday was fine and warm till late in the afternoon, when it became cooler. A light westerly wind blew. At 1 o’clock this morning the weather was fine and there was a light wind. The barometer readings for today, yesterday and Monday were as follows:— This morning (steady) 29.94 in Tuesday 29.90 in Monday 29.97 in