WEATHER FORECAST.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13410, 7 May 1912, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST.

Wellington, May 6. The following is the-R«r D. C. Bates', weather forecast and summary from 5 j p.m. to-day • — ' A small area of low pressure has passed in the south, with strong westerly and southerly winds and unsettled weather conditions. It has been fair to cloudy in the- north with showers in parts. The barometer is abovo normal ■■«?verywhoro, rising slowly in the south. ;-and falling in the north. Present mdi-, lcations-aro for increasing south-easterly ' winds in and northward of Cook Strait, for strong southerly winds elsef whore. A storm area appears to bo developing to the northward of Now Zea-r-larid, and a" change may be expected "over thf North l'sla-ad after about thirty six hours. Cold and changbablo weather :s probable* generaly^wfth shoivers'in »sora<» parts. The barometer is falling in Ithe north, but is fairly steady in tho [south.