METEOROLOGICAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6340, 21 November 1898, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL.

MONDAY'S WEATHER. From Observations Taken at 9 a.m. The extreme barometer ranged from 30.22 at Kaipara Heads down to 29.58 at Invercargill, showing a low pressure area to the southward. In the farther north the sky was cloudy to gloomy, and' there was rain at New Plymouth, Cape Egmont, Wanganui and Queenstown, and passing showievs at. Greymouth; The wind was v -vririabfe, ; -but was for the most part northerly in tne North Island and southerly. in the South. „At Cape Campbell there was a strong north-. west wind^ ahdjihe sei^ -vvas 'Jieiiyy*. jl B'eale^ :'Kiyerlo^r'''Tmperature'in'the..shliofe;\yery'- .. even— ssdeg - at:' Bluff , 63 .at :, Ghi'istchurch., and 67 at "Auckland. " " ''••'•

Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day as follows: — Wind moderate to strong from between north-east and north and west at all places northward of East Cape, Taupo and Raglan ; • strong from between west and south-west, and south from thence eastward to Napier; gale from between north-east, north and west after from ten to twenty hours elsewhere. Barometer rise -slowly north of East Cape, Taupo and Ne\r.iPlymouth, fall at all other places. Sea heavy on the West Coast south of New Plymouth after sixteen to twenty hours, also on the ' east coast south of Napier. Tide high on > the West Coast south of New Plymouth, and • on the east coast south of Napier ; moder- , ate elsewhere.