METEOROLOGICAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 4

METEOROLOGICAL

MOON FOB NOVEMBER. Last quarter. SUI, 1i5.42a.t0.; new: moan, llth, 7.24 p.m.; first guarter»/19Ui, 10.51 a .m.J full moon, 37tb,. 3,34 a.m.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER !5, f0». The Sun.—Bose' today 74-23 a.81.; Jwti 6.4* p.m. Rises tomorrow 4.22 a.mi; «ts 6.49 p.m. (Standard Time.)- v ' : . . Bright Sunshlner-Yesterday: , Morning;: 4.* hours; afternoon, 6.7 hours; total, 11.6 hours. Temperature at 9 a.m., *58.8deg.. ,7 . Relative humidity at 0 a.m., S3 per cent:; Maximum temperature yesterday," 60.0d|Sgi minimum * temperature last night,; 43.3deg; minimum temperature oh grass, 31.9deg. Mean'wind Velocity for r ,24 hours ending $ a.m. today, 4.5 m.p.h. KainfaU in previous 34. bourt, nil: rainfall to date this month. 0.48 in; rainfall to dat« this year, 29.3Mn; rainfall average for November, 2.9Binj ralnfaU average' from January 4 •(, Un- .-i»*. nf Xny.'mliei:" M HUu . '■'■■'; ,«, 7 Barometer, 9 a'.ro.; 1010.2' millibars; noo«* 1019.0 millibars. . . ' r>y- : ; -." ":

SYNOPSIS OF LAST 24 HOURS

Kew Zealand lies between a depression t*J the east arid an anticyclone to, the wept. _V series of westerly depressions has been cross* Jug the southern half of the South Island* South-westerlies predominated in the far nortli and south, but otherwise winds ~were mainly, from a southerly direction; strong in force In the far north and south, but elsewhere light and variable, with sea breezes on the Canterbury coast. Conditions were unsettled and showery in the far north and south, and rain continued falling in north-eastern districts. Elsewhere the weather was fair to- cloudy and temperatures were mild. ■*~■■*-:

TODAY'S WEATHER. Sutiou. Wind. Pres. Temp. We»the| Millibars. : _i Cupe Maria V.D, SSE 6 1027 3? C Busscll S 3 10X0 68 BC Hckianga Heads . S 4 66 BC i Kaipara S.S. SSW 5 1020 61 C Mdnukau Heads S 3 1019 - 62 B i Auckland SW 5 1018 59 BC Tlrltln S 5 -— 57 BC [Kawhia NW 1 1014, 64 B . •Tauranga Calm 1018 61 B Opotikl ........ SB 1 1017 "^5_ BO . ! Taupo SW 1 61 B East Cape—Not received.' i Gisborne SSW 4 -1016 -55 .0^ I Xapier SSW 4 1020 55 BO Ca.niepoint 82 1021 54 O Cape Palliser .. W2' '-' 57 C« New Plymouth SSE 2 1019 m. B Cape Egmont .... S 2 1018 56 BO Patea Calm 1018 -- 61- B Wanganui SE 1 1019 65 B Foxton Calm . 56 B Wellington ... SSE 2 1010, 60. BZ fielson Calm " 1020 61 BC Capo Campbell . Calm lOlfr 56 BC Farewell Spit NNW 2 1020 56 > BC Westport , ' SSW 2 1021 55 O Greymouth NW S 1020 54 O .Arthur's Pass NW 2 ■ — BC Kaikoura N2 1019 60 BC Christchurch ENE 2 " 1019 , 59 B .Akaroa I/house NW 1, 10J7 62 O Timaru Nl 1018 61 CZ Oamant Calm 1018 . 58 - O Punedin N 1 1018 55 O I Alexandra—Not receive^. Quecnstovm S2 1019 56! BC Nuggets ....*. NW 4 1016 53 BCJ v Bluff WSW 4 1016 53 OJP Puysegur Tt. NNW U 10 IS 52 OZ