FINE WEATHER SPELL.
UNUSUAL CONDITIONS. A “WARM" ANTI-CYCLONE. (By Telegraph.—rress Association.) WELLINGTON. Thursday. The calm and pleasant weather being experienced by New Zealand is due to an anti-cyclone of a type common in tlic Northern Hemisphere hut rare in this part of Ihe world, according to a statement 'by Dr. Kidson, the Government Meteorologist, to-day. It is known (o meteorologists as a “warm” anti-cyclone. The temperatures at the upper levels are high, unusually so, for this lime of -the year, while in the lower levels there is a large body of cool air coming from the south. This cool air is being gradually heated by ground amt sea surfaces; -hence a good deal of cumulus cloud is present, owing to the connection of currents. The belt of cool air has its upper boundary very sharply defined by a- sheet of cloud, known as “strato-cumulus,” and above is a belt of warm air, the rise in temperature above the cloud being unusually great for any part of the world. The pilot of the Cook Strait Airways who set out from Nelson this morning, found the temperature at 1000 l’eet 40 degrees; it fell to 29 degrees at 4000 feet, but at 5000 feet had risen to 49 degrees. When descending at Wellington a similar scries of variations was ob-
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20271, 13 August 1937, Page 3
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218FINE WEATHER SPELL. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20271, 13 August 1937, Page 3
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