SLOW TO APPEAR

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 8

SLOW TO APPEAR

IMPROVEMENT- IN WEATHER

The- anticipated improvement in the weather has been slow to make itself noticeable, but the Meteorological Office, with laudable optimism, still expects it in the immediate future. Barometers are now showing a gradual rise over tho Dominion, but the northern cyclone, responsible for the unpleasant weather of the last few days, seems in no hurry in its eastward progression. This morning it was centred .to the north-east of East Oape, which reported the lowest barometric reading of any place in the Dominion. A pleasing factor in the meteorological situation is the advance from over the Tasman Sea of a moderate anti-cyclone. The front of this possible harbinger of better weather is already covering the southern portions of the Dominion. Cold, boisterous, and showery weather has continued to prevail from Cook Strait northward, and the strong southerly wind lias in places reached gale force. In the South Island, how ever, where the wind has not been so strong, tho weather has been mainly fair, although scatered showers have fallen in the Marlborough and IW-eaux Strait districts.

Auckland had an unsettled and wet day yesterday, the wind being a mod crate to fresh south-westerly. Cold and squally conditions .continued to prevail in Wellington. The showers added 19 points of rain to the month's total. The wind, a strong southerly, reached its maximum, force at 1.15 p.m yesterday, when a gust of 48 miles per hour was recorded at Kelburn. Fair to fine weather,, with a fresh southwesterly wind, prevailed in Christchurch yesterday, but the night was wild. Dunedin had good weather, the day being bright and fine, with a light south-westerly wind. Southerly winds, still strong, in. and north of Cook Strait are what to-day's forecast indicates, but they may be expected to decrease gradually in force. Elsewhere light to moderate southerly winds will, veer to the west. Changeable and for the most part showery weather is indicated for the North Island, but an improvement should set in soon. In the South Island fair to fine weather may be expected. Temperatures will remain eooll

The charge has been levelled against the weather in Wellington that it has rained every day this month. This is almost true. The records made at Kelburn show the following rainfall in points:—lst, trace; 2nd, 5; 3rd, 2; 4th, 21; sth, 3; 6th, 46; 7th, none; Bth, 142; 9th, 59; 10th, 27; 11th, none; 12th, 27; 13th, none; 14th, 5; loth, 1; 16th, none; 17th, 19. On some of the four flays on which no rain was recorded at Kelburn, show-ers have fallen in other parts of the city and suburbs. The month's total so far is 357 points; September's average for the whole month is 399 points. It -nill be seen, therefore, that the amount of rain has not been excessive.' What has been aggravating has been the way in which the rain has been spread out, and accompanied by cold winds and low temperatures.