SYNOPSIS OF LAST 24 HOURS.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 12

SYNOPSIS OF LAST 24 HOURS.

An anticyclone still covers the North Tasman Sea and northern New Zealand, but a shallow depression. moving rapidly from the west had crossed the southern half of the South Island by this morning.

The weather for the most part was fair to fine, but became overcast last night in western and southern districts of the South Island with the approach of the depression, and by this morning the overcast area had extended to beyond Cook Strait. Some rain fell in western and southern districts, but the falls were mainly light. Fresh sea breezes blew just in coastal districts, while elsewhere moderate to fresh winds between west and southwest predominated but changed overnight to north-west in the Cook Strait area. Another cool change has occurred in the south, but otherwise the temperatures have been mild to warm.

Station. _Wln<t Pres. Temp. vveaui«r Cape Maria V.D. SSE 4 30.08 Russell SI 30.06 Hokianga Hds. S 3 30.04 Kaipara Sig. Sn. SSW 1 30.05 Manukau Hds. SW 1 — Auckland N 2 30.05 Tiritiri SI — Kawhia El — Tauranga .... Calm — Opotiki SE 2 — Taupo Calm — East Cape .. NW 4 29,93 Gisborne .... NW 5 29.91 Napier Calm 29.88 Castlepolnt .. NW 4 — Cape Palliser .. N 7 — New Plymouth W 3 30.03 Cape Egmont NW 2 29.98 Patea NW 6 — Wanganui . WKW 4 29.97 Foxton NW 3 — Wellington NNW 3 29.89 Nelson. —Not receiveti. Cape Campbell N 7 29.78 Farewell Spit SW 5 29.95 Westport E 3 29.93 Greymouth .... N 3 29.93 Arthur's NW 6 — Kaikoura .... Calm 29.71 Christchurch NW 2 29.67 Akaroa I/house NW 4 29.64 Timaru S 6 29.67 Oamaru SE 4 29.76 Dunedin S 2 29.71 Alexandra. —Not received. Queenstown —Not received. Nuggets SW 3 29.71 Bluff W 6 29.72 Puysegur Pt. NW 7 29.77 ' 69 65 72 67 78 66 63 65 ■71 70 62 66 76 69 66 64 62 62 63 65 64 58 59 64 56 56 53 63 70 73 59 56 54 54 59 54 BZ B BC B B B B B B B B BZ B B B OGQ % BC B C O OG B O OU O O O O OZ O o BCZ OZ OP