FICKLE WEATHER
-. The long and dreary winter dies hard. Glimpses of spring brighten the face of Naturo at uncertain intorvals, and the gaps between , are variously filled by thunder and lightning, gales, rejn, hail, and snow. Yesterday in Wellington was n fair sample—a bright miiiny morning, blue 'sky, soft ■ breeze, a rippling sea in the liarbour.. Then came a stiff nor'wester, » darkening sky. At night ruin in torrential sheets, blinding Hashes of lightning, so low in the sky that the electricity seemed to bo playing about the roofs of the buiklingF and along tho streets, and terrific claps of in under. It was as if Jupiter l'luviue had emptied a multitude of iron water-tanks over tho city, and then pitched the empty tanks into the streets. Willis Street, the Quay, and other thoroughfares, looked in the darkness like swift-flowing mors. Tho outlook is not hopeful. Present indications, according to the official forecast, are for high north-west to south-west winds, stormy weather, and ruin probable.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 29, 29 October 1918, Page 4
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164FICKLE WEATHER Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 29, 29 October 1918, Page 4
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