THE WARMER WEATHER.
CAUSES EXPLAINED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 12. The calm and pleasant weather being experienced by New Zealand is due to a anticyclone of a type common in the northern hemisphere hut rare :n this part of the world, according to a statement by Dr. Kidsoji to-day. It is known to meteorologists as a “warm” anticyclone. The temperatures at the upper levels are high, unusually so for this time of the rear, ■while in the lower levels there is a largo body of cool air coming from the south. This cool air is l>eing gradually heated by tile ground and the sea surfaces. lienee a good deal of cumulus cloud is present owing to the convection currents. The belt of the cool air has its upper boundary very sharply defined hv a sheet of cloud known as strata-cumulus: above is a licit of warm air. the rise in temperature above the cloud being unusually great for aivs part of the world. A pilot of Ccok Strait Airways who set out from Nelson this morning found the temperature at one thousand feet to he *lO degrees. It fell to 20 degrees at 4000 feet, hut at 5000 feet it U<ul risen to 49deg. Descending at Wellington, a similar series of variations was observed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 2
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215THE WARMER WEATHER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 2
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