WEATHER FORECAST

Evening Star, Issue 23373, 16 September 1939, Page 12

WEATHER FORECAST

FINE AT FIRST UNSETTLED LATER The following weather foijpcast win issued at noon by the Meteorological Office, Wellington, covering the 1 southern district': —Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Tapanui, Winton. Invercargill, Riverton, Orepuki, Halfmoon Bay:— An anti-cyclone covers the ; Tasman Sea and New Zealand, while a, depression is located over Tasmania. Forecast: Winds light and variable to-day, freshening northerlies to-morrow. Weather mainly fair to fine at first, but probably becoming unsettled later iu the south and west. Some frosts tor night, but temperatures becoming milder to-morrow. Seas slight, bu| rising. LOCAL REPORT. Maximum temperature to-day* 52.8 deg. ■ Maximum yesterday (24 hours)* 58.5 deg. Minimum to-day, 50.4 deg. Minimum., yesterday, 42deg. •JJarometric pressure at 1 p.m., rising at 30.05 m (1,018 millibars). Light south-westerly breeze. AT OTHER CENTRES. The following information is abridged from the report issued by the Meteorological Office at 9 this morning;— / < Temp* Weather, deg. Auckland— Overcast and calm. Rain,-.Olin. 55 Wellington— Blue sky; light east-north-east-erly. Frost, .12deg. 49, ChristchurchBlue sky and detached clouds, with haze; .light. southerly*. Rain, ,15in. Frost, .'l2deg. 4| Timaru— Blue sky and detached clouds, with haze; slight north-west-crly. 541 Oamaru— Blue sky and detached clouds; slight south-westerly. v ~ 47] Bluff— ' Overcast, with intermittent .rain; slight west-north-westerly. 48 Nuggets— i. Blue sky and detached clouds, ' • with haze; fresh north-west-erly. Rain, .Q6in. 45. Grey mouth— - ■' Blue sky and detached clouds; moderate westerly. , Rain, .10in. ,45