FORECAST CHART FOR NOON TODAY

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33493, 26 March 1974, Page 22

FORECAST CHART FOR NOON TODAY

Situation at 8 pan. An anticyclone lies east of New Zealand and a deep depression in the Tasman Sea is moving only slowly south. A cold front south-west of Invercargill is expected to cross the south of New Zealand today. Forecasts:

CANTERBURY, MARLBOROUGH. — Winds from a northerly quarter becoming moderate or fresh about the coasts; fine and mild.

NELSON, BULLER, WESTLAND. — Light or moderate north-easterlies predominating; fine weather but with increasing high cloud; moderate day temperatures. OUTLOOK.—Showers in Buller and Westland ; fair weather elsewhere. Christchurch readings

Observations taken at the; Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. | Barometer: 6 p.m. 11 p m ’ Millibars .. 1024.8 1023.71 Temperatures: deg Maximum (to 6 p.m.) 20. Rainfall: mm ! 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. 0. To date this month 751 . To date this year 1791 To date last year .. 751 Average to date 142 I Average for March 43 Wettest (1965) 172 Driest (1920) .. 3, Sunshine: h m Yesterday 10 18 To date this month 121 42 To date this year 337 54 To date last year 563 24 Average for March 160 Ou Humidity. Per cent at noon .. 49 Per cent at 6 p m. .. 74 Temperatures and rainfall for the 24- hours to 9 a m vesterday —Maximum 18deg, minimum 7 deg, grass 4deg, rainfall nil. SUN, MOON AND TIDES Sun—Today: Rises: 6.38 a.m.; sets, 632 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises 6.39 a m.; sets, 6.30 p.m High water at Lyttelton—Tod’v 6.4 a.m. and 6.32 p.m. Tomorrow: 7 a.m. and 727 p.m.

-Moon—Today: Rises, 8.58 am.; sets 7.14 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 10.7 a.m.; sets, 7.51 p.m. Phases of Moon [First quarter: March 31, 1.43 p.m Full moon: April 7, 9.1 am. Last quarter: April 15, 2.58 a m. New moon: April 22, 10.17 p.m. NOON WEATHER Auckland: 19deg, fine, NE, 6 knots Wellington: 16deg, fine, S.S E., i 10 knots Christchurch: 21deg, fine, N.E., 5 knots [Dunedin: 16dcg, fine, calm. WORLD WEATHER Athens, clear, 12deg minimum, 19deg maximum; Rome, clear 9, 19; Paris clear, 11, 19; London, cloudy 6,8; Beilin, clear, 3, 11; Amsterdam, cloudy. 5, 12; Brussels, sunny 7, 15; Madrid, cloudy, 5, 12; Moscow clear, —I, 1; Stockholm, cloudy, —1 4; New York, rain, 4. 14; San Francisco, cloudy, 9, 12; Loa Angeh-a, cloudy. 13, 17; Chicago, cloudv, —B. —6: Miami, cloudy. 24 27; Tokyo clear 3 12; Hong Kone, cloudy,' 17. 20; Buenos Airrs, clear, 20, 28; Montreal, cloud'-, —7, 6; Honolulu, clear, 21, 28; Toronto, enow —4, 4; Rio de Janeiro, cloudy, 18, 31; Lisbon, clear. 6. 14; Teheran, cloudy, 10, 19: Seoul, Cloudv, —2, 8; Bangkok. clear, 24, 33; Taipei, cloudy, 17, 23; Nandi fine. 23 32; Singapore, sunny, 24, 31.