FIRST EDITION. THE WEATHER.

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19564, 1 May 1935, Page 6

FIRST EDITION.

THE WEATHER.

LOCAL OBSERVATIONS,

Miss R. Budd, or Messrs Balfour,-Irvine and Webster, supplies the following local observations on the weather:

Barometer. Tuesday 30 '2n Wednesday .. 29.90 '* , Thermometer. Max. Min.

Monday 12 Tuesday 68 ol Mean Temperature, 59.5 deg. The barometer reads 29.JU with a falling tendency. Indications are for partly fair and partly cloudy weather to-day with milder temperature and northerly Winds prevailing; unsettled -conditions following. Tho Rainfall.

Rainfall for 24 hours ended 9 o’clock this morning, .OOin. Rainfall for previous 24 noii/s .OOin. Total for. May to date, .OOins. 4 Average rainfall for May, 4.63 in. ' Rainfall for year to date. 14.74 in. Yearly average, 46.321 n.

SOUTH AUCKLAND AREA (By Govt. Meteorologist.)

The special forecast by the Government Meteorologist covering the Waikato* Thames Valley is as follows: Forecast: Light to moderate southerly wind, later turning to north-westerlies and freshening. Weather fair to'fine and milder. Seas smooth to moderate. General Inference: An anti-cyclone of slight intensity Is located over the north Tasman Sea, and northern New Zealand,- and pressure is now rising lo the eastward. A deep and extensive depression is, however, advancing across the south Tasman. GOVERNMENT REPORT. The weather report and forecast for New Zealand, Issued last evening by the Government meteorologist, was as follows: —Pressure is rising to the east of - New Zealand and is relatively high to the north, but a depression covers the centra! a-nd southern portions of the Tasman Sea. The Indications are for northerly to westerly winds prevailing, ' light to moderate at first, but freshening -shortly In and south of Cook Strait and balking to southerlies in the far south by to-morrow evening. Seas smooth to moderate, but rising later south of Cape Egmont. In the eastern Tas--man Sea, north-westerly winds In the central and northern portions and westerly to south-westerly in the southern portion, • moderate to strong in- force; .seas rather rough. The weather Is becoming unnsettlecl in western districts from Taranaki southward and in the southern portion of the South Island, with scattered rains, elsewhere fair to fine. Temperatures milder. The' Government meteorologist last night issued the following -special forecast for the Auckland Province: — Light to moderate winds with ■westerly to north-westerly predominating. The weather "should be fine and milder. Seas smooth to moderate.