THE WEATHER
LOCAL OBSERVATIONS The following- local observations on the weather are supplied by Miss Rudd, ot Messrs Balfour, Irvine and Webster, Ltd., Hamilton. Barometer Monday 29.30 Tuesday 29.80 Thermometer Max. Min. Saturday .... 66 58 Monday 70 5 4 Mean temperature, 62 deg-. The barometer reads 29.80 (1009 millibars; and has a rising tendency. Continued unsettled weather Is indicated to-day and to-morrow with heavy showers, cool temperatures, westerly winds pre\ailing. The Rainfall Rainfall for 24 hours ended 9 o’clock tins morning. .oßin. Rainfall ror previous 2 4 hours, .55in. Rainrall Tor February to date, 2.15in. Averag-e rainfall for February, 3. mm. Rainrall Tor year to date, 9.7uin. Average yearly rainrall, 46.32 inches. SPECIAL FORECAST By Guvernn.ent Meteorologist' The special forecast by the •'.osernnjent .Meteorologist, coverug the Waikaio-Tbames Valley General situation: A deep westerly depression is centred south-east of Otago, while an anticyclone covers south-east-ern Australia. Forecast: Moderate to fresh westerly to south-westerly winds. Weather cool and changeable, rough on the west coast, slight on the east.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21037, 13 February 1940, Page 4
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