Noon Forecast

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34045, 8 January 1976, Page 18

Noon Forecast

SITUATION: A slow moving belt of high pressure lies east to west across the South Island. A depression east of Lord Howe Island is moving slowly south-east, and associated cloud covers the north of the North Island FORECAST: Marlborough. Nelson. Buller, and Westland: Light or

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

j Observations taken at the .'Meteorological Office. Christ- • church Airport, yesterday:

Barometer: 6 p.m. 11 p.m. Millibars J021.S 1025.0 Temperature: deg. Maximum (to 6 p.m.) 18 Rainfall: mm 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. 0 To date this month 4 To date this year .. 4 To date last year .. Trace Average to date .. 11 Average for January 56 Wettest Jan. <1923) 139 Driest January (1897) ISunshine: h m Yesterdav 10 — | To date this month 33 — * To date this year . . 38 — • To date last year 69 — Average for January 211 — Humidity. ! Per cent at noon 52■ Per cent to 6 p.m. 70 Temperatures and rainfall for ithe 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday.; I—Maximum 22deg minimum 10

moderate variable winds with day-time sea breezes; some cloud at first this morning but mainly fine and mild. . Canterbury: Light or moderate variable winds mainly north-easterlies about the coast; some coastal cloud morning and night, otherwise fine, mi'.d in the , afternoon ' Outlook: Fair

: deg, grass lOdeg. rainfall 2 7mm. SUN. MOON ANO TIDES , Sun—Today: Rises. 5.58 a.m.. sets. 9.12 p.m. Tomorrow Rises, 5.59 a.m.; sets, 9.11 p.m. Moon—Today: Rises. 12.32 p.m ; sets, 12 p.m. Tomorrow; i Rises. 1.30 p.m.; sets. 12.14 ( a.m High, tide at Lyttelton—Today: 10.39 a.m. and 11.4 pm. Tomorrow: 11.22 a.m. and 11 48 p.m. Phases of Moon Flret quarter: January 10, 1.40 a.m. i ! Full moon: January 17, 5 47 p.m. I Last quarter: January 24, 5.47 p.m. .■New moon: January 31, 7.20 p.m. NOON WEATHER Auckland: 21deg. cloud? N W., 8 i knots. /Wellington: 17deg. cloud’.. S. 6 knots. Christchurch: 17deg. fine F. , 10 knots . Dunedin: 17deg. partly cloudy, > calm.