WINDS CONTINUE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 93, 16 October 1940, Page 8

WINDS CONTINUE

SHOWERS TOMORROW

Special forecast for Wellington:—

Strong north-westerly winds still continuing. Weather cloudy and mild, with

showers developing tomorrow.

The general forecast for the Dominion as a whole is for moderate to strong north-westerly to westerly winds, gale force being reached in exposed positions south of Cape Egmont and Napier. Later in the far south winds will tend south-westerly in direction. In eastern districts and in the far north the weather will be fair, but elsewhere it will continue cloudy and unsettled with rain at times, with showers extending later up the East Coast to possibly beyond Christchurch. Temperatures will be warm in the east and mild elsewhere, but in the south they will become cooler.

The centre of the anticyclone in the north has moved slightly eastward, while westerly depressions continue to pass in the south. Winds from a westerly quarter have been strong in southern Hawke's Bay, the Wellington Province, and the southern half of the South Island, while elsewhere they have been light to fresh. In western districts south of Auckland the weather has continued dull and misty with occasional drizzle. Otherwise, except for a few showers this morning on the south coast and in Western Otago, it has been fair. Although it has been very cloudy, rainfalls have been only slight, Puysegur Point reporting a fall of 30 points and Queenstown one of 29 points. Auckland and Wellington had dull and mild weather yesterday with drizzle later in the day, while in the two southern cities it was cloudy and warm. Westerly or north-westerly winds were fresh to strong, except in Christchurch. Thi-ee points of rain fell in Wellington, where the maximum and minimum temperatures were 57.4 and 51.2 degrees respectively. In Christchurch, however, the maximum temperature rose to 71 degrees, and inland it was even warmer.