COOLEB WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 6

COOLEB WEATHER

BUT FAIR TO FINE

Today's weather forecast promises southerly to south-easterly winds about and to the north of Cook Strait, with southerlies to south-weste'rlies elsewhere. Winds generally will be moderate to strong and gale force will be reached in places. The weather, however, is expected to •'be mainly fair to fine and cool. Some showers aTe probable in northern and:. north-eastern districts of ithe North Island and in scattered places along- the, East Coast. - _Thq depression.which crossed the Dominion yesterday has passed' away eastward since, last night, and an intense anticyclone is now advancing, on to the southern part of the country. Barometers * have risen very rapidly from Cook Strait soutluvarcL The weather has been changeable, and in places, showery, the showers occurring chiefly in the South Island.,'Since'last night a change to southerly winds 'has become general, and temperatures have become decidedly-. cooler. The'southerlies have been.s.trong and Bqudlly on' parts of the East Coast. > East Cape reports a south-westerly gale, early this morning, and a similar Teporjfc has-been received from Akaroa Heads. ' Otherwise over tho\greater part'of s tbe Dominion winds-have b'een only light to moderate. By this morning the weather in districts with a westerly aspect had cleared. ' ,- -, -' - The weather was again fine in 'Auckland yesterday, a light southerly 'prevailing. • • ■ .• '

Wellington experienced warm -and fair to cloudy weather-with a fresh north-westerly wind. A' . southerly change came up in the evening, but no rain fell. Smce then temperatures have been much cooler. The weather in Christchurch yesterday morning was fine and sunny, but during the afternoon it became overeast ana threatening. A strong southwesterly wind brought with it a trace of rain, but the weather subsequently cleared. During the night three degrees of frost were recorded. , Duncdin had cold and unsettled weather yesterday, occasional showers falling with the fresh south-westerly wind.