SPECIAL WEATHER FORECAST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 82, Issue 305, 24 December 1938, Page 6

SPECIAL WEATHER FORECAST

IMPROVEMENT UNTIL MONDAY DISTURBED CONDITIONS AGAIN LATER (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 23. In a special forecast for the Christmas holiday period the Director of Meteorological Services, Dr. E. Kidson, said that on Thursday an anti-cyclone was advancing across the Tasman Sea and there was a prospect of an improvement in the weather over New Zealand as it aprpoached. At the same time a tropical cyclone had developed Fiji Islands group. Thjs cyclone had since moved in a south-south-easterly direction and this morning had centered between the Kermadecs and and Tonga, causing pressure to fall temporarily over the North Island on Thursday night and winds to freshen over the South Island. On the whole, however, there had been a rise of pressure and southerlies had brought light showers to many places this morning, specially to the eastern and northern districts. The weather was becoming more settled and prospects for to-morrow were quite favourable for most districts. Winds should decrease and temperatures gradually rise. A fresh and rather vigorous disturbance had already developed over south-east Australia so that any prolonged spell of fine weather was still unlikely. However, fair weather would probably be experienced on Sunday over most of the Dominion. . On the west coast of the South Island and in the far south a renewal of unsettled conditions could be expected and by Monday this should have gradually become more general. Prospects for the middle portion of next week were not favourable.