FORECAST CHART FOR NOON TODAY

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33450, 4 February 1974, Page 30

FORECAST CHART FOR NOON TODAY

FRONTS I WEATHER SYMBOLS coin —— •— RAIN AREAS DIRECTION | \ showers hr mil Hill of movement “—T WARM V —W W SCATTERED RAIN ////////// WINO FLOW — — HIGH PRESSURE U ISOBARS 1005 OCHUDEO— OR ANTTCYCIONC “ (Promt in nillta) - EOW PRESSURE I 1016®b-30ii STATIONART— CR DEPRESSION U Ink-0.03i»

Situation at 8 p.m. A ridge of high pressure extends on to the North Island from the anticyclone to the north-east. The depression and its associated frontal system is moving on to the South Island. A ridge of high pressure lies south of the country. Forecasts: CANTERBURY. INLAND MARLBOROUGH. — Moderate variable winds; cloudy and mild; occasional light rain at first; fair this afternoon. NELSON, MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS. — Fresh north-westerlies; mild, with misty light rain. BULLER, WESTLAND. — Moderate northwesterlies; mild; occasional rain. OUTLOOK. — Cooler southerly change, clearing in the west. Christchurch readings

Observations taken at the. Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer: 6 p.m. 11 p.m. i Millibars .. 1011.0 1012.01 Temperalures: deg. Maximum (to 6 p.m.) 26 Rainfall: mm. ; 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. .. Nil Saturday Nil To date this month Nil To date this year .. 33 To date last year .. 29 Average to date .. 52 Average for Feb. 46 Wettest Feb. (1936) 176 Driest Feb. (1908) 1 Sunshine: h m Yesterday 4 06 Saturday 3 42 To date this month 18 06 To date this year .. 221 12 To date last year .. 255 06 Average for February 180 00 Humidity: Per cent at noon .. 45 Per cent at 6 p.m. .. 59 Temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday. —Maximum 32deg. minimum 16 deg, grass 13deg, rainfall trace. SUN, MOON, AND TIDES Sun—Today: Rises, 5.33 am.; sets, 7.53 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 5.34 am.; sets, 7.52 p.m. High water at Lyttelton—Today: 1.22 a.m. and 1.44 p.m. Tomorrow: 2.14 a.m. and 2.38 p.m. (Moon— Today: Rises, 5.35 p.m.; I sets. 1.44 a.m. Tomorrow: Rises: 6.22 p.m.; sets. 2.56 i a.m.

Phases of Moon Full moon: February 7. 11.25 a.m. Last quarter: February 14, 12.5 p.m. New moon: February 22. 5.3 S p.m. First quarter: March 2, 6 3 t.n, NOON WEATHER Auckland: 24deg.. cloudv. N « knots. Wellington: 20deg.„ mistv. NW--15 knots. Christchurch: 26deg partly cloudy. N.E., 5 knots. Dunedin: 25deg., partly cloudy. N.E.. 7 knots. WORLD WEATHER Athens, clear, 9deg. minimum, 12deg. maximum; Rome, oven cast. 7, 15; Paris, sunny. 5 11; London, showers, 4. 9; Berlin, cloudy. 2, 10; Amsterdam, cloudv 5, 10; Brussels, clear, 3 8; Madrid.’ rain. 5, 10; Moscow, cloudy. —4 —1; Stockholm cloudy, —j, 4; New York, rain. —l, 3; Saq Francisco, clear, 12, 13; Lo< Angeles, cloudy, 11. 14: Chicago, cloudy, —6 —2; Miami, cloudy. 19 26; Tokyo, clear, 2,9; Hons Kong, cloudv, 11. 17; Montreal, cloudy, —l7 —l4; Honolulu, clear, 22, 27; Toronto, snow —9, I—7; Rio, clear, 21, 34; Lisboa I rain, 8 14; Teheran, snow. —I, 14; Seoul, clear. —7. 4; Bangkok jclear. 25. 33: Taipei, cloudy 14, 18; Dublin drizzle, 5 10: Edin i burgh, cloudv, 5. 9; Saigon I cloudy. 21, 16.