THE WEATHER CLOUDY AND MILD

Southland Times, Issue 23681, 2 December 1938, Page 6

THE WEATHER CLOUDY AND MILD

(Special to The Times)

WELLINGTON, December 1. Following is the special weather forecast for Southland, issued by the Meteorological Office, Wellington:— Light to moderate and variable winds. Weather cloudy and mild, with occasional rain. Seas slight

to moderate. Following is the Dominion forecast:— Weather for the most part fair to cloudy and warm, but rain probable in western and southern districts of the South Island. Some isolated local falls probable also in other districts. General Situation.—The pressure is relatively high to the north and northeast, while a depression covers the Tasman. An anti-cyclone is slowly approaching south-eastern Australia from the west Winds variable in the southern portion of the South Island, but otherwise northerlies to north-westerlies prevailing, force mainly light to moderate, but freshening about Cook Strait and in exposed positions elsewhere. Seas.—New Zealand waters, rather rough to rough about Cook Strait, elsewhere slight to moderate; eastern Tasman Sea, moderate to strong northerly winds prevailing; seas rather rough to rough.

The weather in Invercargill yester-, day was warm and overcast, with a I light fall of rain during the afternoon. At one o’clock this morning the wea- 1 ther was sultry and the sky was clouded. The barometer readings for the last three mornings have been as follows:— This morning 29.48 in Thursday 29.80 in Wednesday 29.78 in