COOLER WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 89, 12 October 1932, Page 6

COOLER WEATHER

FAIR TO CLOUDY

Fair to cloudy weather, with, an improvement soon, is the, general forecast for the Dominion issued^ to-day. .Temperatures will-be cool, and scattered showers are still probable in districts with aspect and in far southern, districts; .■ Winds, which are at present^ generally speaking/ light to moderate 's<rtitK.-%vesterlies, -will,, veer gradually to the north-west during the next twenty-four hours in places in and south of .Cook Strait. . .

Barometers rose irregularly s yesterday 'as.''the anticyclone traversing-the Tasman Sea began, to extend,on to the Dominion. weather was very e'.angeable, and in most places threatening'at Jimes, even where there was no rain. .- But showers •'were widespread, especially in I western . districts, and there were some" quite heavy falls in places.' Although the ■ mnd .packed , gradually to .the south-west, southerlies were lightj-and there is already a ten-* dency in. southern districts for '■'■: thje wind 4o /veer, again' to the, west or north-wesj. \Tenaiperatures everywhere have fallen somewhat. ' . ', .

Auckland had a fine day yesterday. Some showers, however, fell there last night, but by this morning the weather had cleared again. In Wellington, after tf bright spell, in the early morning, the weather became dull and threatening. Although little rain fell in the citj}, there were some sharp showers in some of the suburbs. Early this morning the wind went round to tho south, but the weather, which had cleared last evening, remained fine, although temperatures ■ are decidedly cooler than they have been lately. Christchurch had a sunny morning followed by an overcast afternoon, when a strong north-easterly breeze set in. Dunedin experienced a cloudy to over-cast-day, with':, a light to moderate south-westerly, -wind ajicl cooi temperatures, i