THE WEATHER.
LOCAL OBSERVATIONS* The following local observations are supplied on the weather: — Barometer-. Friday 29.90 Saturday ...» 29.55 Thermometer. Maxi Min. Thursday 81 58 Friday 70 57 Mean Temperature-, 63.5 deg. The barometer reads 29.55 and Is falling. Indications are for continued unsettled weather to-day and possibly to-morrow, with heavy rain, higher temperature and northerly winds prevailing-. The Rainfall. Rainfall for 24 hours ended 9 o’clock this morning, .25in. Rainfall for previous 24 hours, .OOin. Rainfall for February to date, .55in. Average rainfall for February, 3. lOin. Rainfall for year to date, 6.5 lin. Average yearly rainfall, 46.32in. SPECIAL FORECAST. (By Govt. Meteorologist). The special forecast by the Government Meteorologist covering the WaikatoThames Valley is as follows: Forecast: Moderate to strong south-westerly winds, reaching gale force at times In exposed positions. Weather cold, changeable and squally with passing showers, heavy in places with some hail and thunder but later improving. Seas rather rough to rough. General Inference: A deep depression is located east of I the Dominion and pressure I is everywhere low. An anti(l cyclone covers the Tasman Sea, however, and barometers are now rising. Conditions are disturbed in the tropics to the north, a cyclone being centred in the New Hebrides. This may affect northern New Zealand after a few days.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20118, 13 February 1937, Page 6
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213THE WEATHER. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20118, 13 February 1937, Page 6
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