UNUSUAL WEATHER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 252, 3 April 1915, Page 8

UNUSUAL WEATHER.

MR. BATES EXPLAINS STORMY CONDITIONS.

By Tclegrapli.—Press Association.

Wellington, Last Night.

The weather conditions now prevailing, Mr. Bates explains, are a consequence of an Antarctic storm in higher latitudes. One effect of this disturbance was to prevent wireless messages being transmitted from the Ma=jquarie Island on Tuesday night, and the weather report this morning indicates that the strong and squally westerly winds which have been experience:! in various parts of the Dominion during the past two or three days are in sympathy with or a consequence of that disturbance Although the storm itself is not particularly in evidence in the Dominion these westerly winds show an exact converse of the conditions prevailing about a fortnight ago, when a capital storm was i M evidence off the East Coast of the North Island, and although the barometer -everywhere was above normal and steady yet the weather was most unsettled, and heavy rain was experienced in various parts, especially i n the North and East Coast districts of the North Island, while the storm centre itself never visited New Zealand. The east coast of the Continent of America is occasionally visited by storms of tVis character, when the storm area moves -in a direction contrary to its u?iial course. It is nearly two years since New Zealand experienced a 'disturbance of that nature, and the advent of such an occurrence could ony be. really forecasted with any ccrtaintly 'if a wireless station were well established ou the Kormadec Islands.