FINE WEEK-END

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 7, 9 July 1923, Page 8

FINE WEEK-END

CLOUDY AND HAZY WEATHER EXPECTED.

The weather has played its part in setting off the Welcome Week Celebrations tinder favourable conditions, although it was not until Saturday afternoon that the rays of sunshine gleamed down sufficiently strong enough to make the outlook for the week-end promising, as had been predicted by the Director of the Meteorological Office. The weather over the week-end was practically all that could be desired, but this afternoon the skies resumed a laden appearance which suggested a break in the favourable conditions. There is hope, however, that any change may not be severe in the meantime, but Mr. D. C. Bates states that people will require to be on the gui vive during the next two .or three days, as the storm which was ■reported on Saturday to be developing on the Tasman Sea canuot yet be removed from the charts, showing possible weather experiences in the Dominion., The storm, however, has not yet made definite signs' of qoming this way. The report of the Meteorological Director to-day was to the effect that anticyclonic conditions held sway, over the week-end, and with the exception of a few passing showers along the east coast, particularly in the North Island, fair to cloudy and cold weather has prevailed. The thermometer showed something out of the ordinary at Queenstown and at Arthur's Pass at 9 a.m. to-day. The reading at Queenstown was 18 degrees, the same as on Saturday, and at Arthur's Pass it was 20 degrees, one degree below Saturday's reading! "Those are the lowest details which have been telegraphed to Wellington for many a day." said Mr. Bates. Hard frosts have been. experienced, particularly in the south, and southerly breezes have predominated. The winds are now likely to change to easterlies, north of Farewell Spit and Kaikoiira, with northerlies prevailing in the south. Increasing cloudiness arid haze may be expected, with a very cold night gener-' ally.