NOON FORECAST

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33773, 20 February 1975, Page 26

NOON FORECAST

Situation: A large slow-moving anticyclone covers the South Island and the south Tasman Sea; an easterly airstream flows over the North Island.! Forecast: Canterbury, Marlborough:!

Moderate north-easterlies; cloud at first but becoming fine; mild by day. Nelson, Buller, Westland: Fine and mild; light winds ! apart from sea breezes i this afternoon, iOutlook: Fair.

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

Observations taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer: Bp.rn. 11 p.m Millibars .. 1023.1 1023.8 Temperature: deg. Maximum (to 8 p.m.) 21 Rainfall: mm 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. .. 0 To date this month 5 To date this year .. 115 To date last year .. 81 Average to date .. 80 Average for Feb. 46 Wettest Feb. <1938) 176 Driest Feb. (1908) .. 1 Sunshine: h m Yesterday 11 42 To date this month 143 06 To date this year .. 309 42 To date last year .. 287 36 Average for Feb. . 180 00 Humidity: Per cent at noon .. 53 Per cent at 6 p.m. .. 67 Temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday. I —Maximum 21deg, minimum lOdeg, grass Bdeg, rainfall nil.

‘ SUN, MOON, AND TIDES ' Sun—Today: Rises, 6.56 a.m.; sets, 8.30 p.m. Tomorrow • Rises, 6.57 a.m.: sets. 8.28 8 p.m. Moon—Today: Rises, 3.36 p.m.: 1 Sets, 12.58 a.m.; rises, 4.34 P.m. /High water at Lyttelton—Today: 51 12.13 p.m. and — p.m. To5( morrow: 12.41 am. and 13 i; P-m. “ I Phases of Moon j Full moon: February 26. 2.15 1 P-m. 3 Last quarter: March 5. 9.21 a.m. 21 New moon: March 13. 12.48 p.m. 8. First quarter: March 21. 9.5 a m. NOON WEATHER 9 Auckland: 23deg, partlv cloudy. S.S.W., 8 knots. 3 Wellington: 19dcg, cloudy, S.S.E., 7 ■ 11 knots. r | Christchurch: 2ldeg. partlv cloudy, N„ 5 knots. a Dunedin: 16deg, cloudy. S.E., 3 knots.