UNSTABLE AIR MASSES
THE METEOROLOGICAL-CAUSE
' When asked this morning to explain the unusual nature of the storm, Dr. E. Kidson, "Director of Meteorological Services, said that any explanation wjaich could,be given at present was tentative only and would be based largely on deductions from events themselves in the absence of observations of pressure, temperature, and moisture content in the air in upper levels over the Tasman Sea prior to the occurrence, since it was from that area that the air involved had come.
The indications, he went on to say, were thafthere was over.the northern Tasman Sea yesterday a mass of air
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 11
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102UNSTABLE AIR MASSES Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 11
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