Midday Weather Forecasts for Farmers

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 64, Issue 1, 15 January 1942, Page 28

Midday Weather Forecasts for Farmers

OF . special interest to farmers is the system of telegraphic weather forecasts recently reinstituted to compensate, to some measure, for the handicap resulting from the wartime suspension of meteorological broadcasts. _. .Under the present scheme, the Dominion has been divided into sixteen districts, for each of which a twenty-four hour forecast is issued at noon daily, except Sundays and holidays. To each forecast is added a' “further outlook,” which gives an indication of the general conditions or developments likely to occur in the day or two following the close of the main forecast period. While this further outlook cannot be as accurate as the twenty hour forecast, .it should be of definite value to the farmer in planning his various operations.

The 118 Post Offices which receive forecasts appropriate to their district are listed below. At these offices the forecasts, which are usually received shortly after midday, are displayed for public information. They are also available in the local telephone exchange for the benefit of those who wish to inquire for them by telephone. ' If any subscriber connected to one of the local exchanges concerned desires to have the forecasts forwarded regularly by telephone he can avail himself of a further service provided by the Post and Telegraph Department. This service is described by the following section extracted from the information appearing in the Post Office Guide: — “Provided that a weather-forecast telegram is regularly received there, a subscriber to a telephone exchange or a private telephone line owner con-

nected with a Telephone Office may have such a telegram telephoned for an annual payment of £l, or 10/- for one ■ season of three months, commencing from any date desired.” The following is a list of places to which midday district weather forecasts are distributed by telegraph: District A.— Kaitaia, Russell, Whangarei, Dargaville, Kaikohe. District — Helensville, Auckland, Pukekohe, Raglan, Kawhia. Coromandel, Waihi, Paeroa, Tauranga, Huntly, Morrinsville, Cambridge, Te Awamutu, Te Kuiti, Taumarunui. District C.— Rotorua, Taupo, Whakatane, Opotiki. District D. New Plymouth, Whangamomona, Opunake, Hawera, Stratford. District E.— Te Araroa, Tokomaru Bay, Tolaga Bay, Te Karaka, Gisborne, Wairoa. District F. Napier, Hastings, Waipukurau, Porangahau, Dannevirke. District G. — Raetihi, Taihape, Patea, Wanganui, Marton, Feilding, Palmerston North, Foxton, Gtaki. District Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Masterton, Featherston, Martinborough. District . French Pass, Takaka, Motueka, Nelson, Murchison. District J.—Portage, Picton, Havelock, Blenheim, Seddon. District K.— Karamea, Westport, Reefton, Greymouth, Hokitika, Ross, Cass. . district L. Kaikoura, Hanmer Springs, Cheviot, Hawarden, Amberley, Oxford, Darfield, Christchurch, Lyttelton, Akaroa, Methven; Rakaia, Ashburton, ' Geraldine, Timaru, Waimate, Kurow, Oamaru. . District M. — Fairlie, Hermitage, Lake Tekapo, Lake Pukaki, Omarama. District — Palmerston, Middlemarch, Dunedin, Mosgiel, Lawrence, Tapanui, Milton, Balclutha. District O. Wanaka, Glenorchy, Arrowtown, Queenstown, Cromwell, Ranfurly, Alexandra, Roxburgh. District P— Lumsden, Otautau, Gore, Winton, Wynham, Invercargill, Bluff, Half-moon Bay.