UNSETTLED WEATHER

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1940, Page 6

UNSETTLED WEATHER

By Telegraph—Press Association.

Wellington, Last Night. The weather will be unsettled in the central provinces with rain at times but fair to fine in the northern and southern extremities of the Dominion. Temperatures will be mild in the north but cold in the south with frosts inland. Winds will be north-westerly at first from Nelson and Marlborough northwards, but there will be a change to south-iyesterly or southerly, advancing to beyond Cook Strait, later, The strength of the wind will be moderate in the far north and elsewhere fresh to strong and reaching gale force in exposed positions about Cook Strait and the Wellington province but gradually decreasing Pressure remains high to the northeast of New Zealand and is rising again rapidly in the, south behind a depression which lies across the South Island. A low pressure centre is located in the western Tasman Sea. Seas will be rough about Cook Strait, rather rough in the South Taranaki Bight and south of Castlepoint, but slight or moderate elsewhere.