Noon Forecast

Press, 10 July 1979, Page 36

Noon Forecast

Situation: A weakening ridge of high pressure extends over northern New Zealand, and a disturbed west to north-west airstream flows over the rest of New Zealand and the touth Tasman Sea. Forecasts:

Canterbury: Showers about the Alps, but fine elsewhere; fresh gusty northwesterlies inland decreasing this morning; moderate north-easteriies near the coast; moderate daytime temperatures. Marlborough; North-west-erlies often fresh and

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

Observations taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer: 6 p.m. 11 p.m. Millibars -- 1010.8 1010.0 Temperature: deg. Maximum (to 6 p m.) 15 tain fa 11: mm 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. .. 0 Saturday .. 0 To date this month 13 To date this year .. 362 To date last year -. 44a Average to date •• 348 Average for July 55 Wettest July (1963) 140 Driest July (1967) 5 (unshine: hours Yesterday: 7hr 18min. To date this month . - 42 To date this year .. 1072 To date last year .. 1030 Average for July .. 122 lumiditv: Per cent at noon .. 59 Per cent at 6 p.m. .. 55 Temperatures and rainfall for fie 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday. Maximum lldeg, minimum —3 teg, gras —6deg, rainfall nil. SUN MOON AND TIDES ten—Today: Rises, 8.1 a.m.; sets, 5.9 p.m. Tomorrow Rises, 8.1 a.m.; sets. 5.9 p.m. toon —Todav: Rises, 5.46 p.m.. sets, 7.44 a.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 6.56 p.m.; sets, 8.3/ a.m. ligh tide at Lyttelton—Today 4.8 a.m. and 4.38 p.m. To morrow: 5.3 a.m. and 5.3 c p m

gusty; mainly fine but a few showers in the north and west this morning; moderate temperatures. Nelson: Fresh northerlies for a time this morning, otherwise moderate westerl i e s predominating; cloudy; scattered showers for a time this morning but clearing in the afternoon. Buller, Westland: Cloudy and cool; occasional rain; moderate north-easterlies turning to the south-west during the day. Outlook: Showers in Nelson and the West Coast, mainly fair elsewhere.

Phases of Moon Full moon: July 10, 8 p.m. Last quarter: July 16, 11 p.m. New' moon: July 24, 2 p.m. First quarter: August 11, 6 p.m. NOON WEATHER Auckland: lldeg. clear, calm. Wellington: 12deg, partly cloudy, N.W.. 22 knots. Christchurch: 9deg, partly cloudy, calm. Dunedin: 9deg, cloudy, calm. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main cities of the world in the last 24 hours were:— Adelaide. 8, 15; Amsterdam, 11, 18; Athens. 21, 29; Bahrain, 27. 39; Bangkok, 28, 31; Beirut, 23 28; Belgrade, 16, 25; Berlin, 12. 18; Bogota, 9, 17: Brisbane. 4, 24; Brussels, 12, 20; Buenos Aires, 3, 14; Cairo. 21. 33; Canberra, 2, 12; Caracas, 23, 31; Chicago, 15. 28; Copenhagen. 13, 20; Curitiba (Brazil), 11. 20; Denpasar Indonesia). 24, 30; Frankfurt, 14, 26; Geneva. 11. 23; Helsinki, 12, 18; Hong Kong, 27, 32; Honolulu, 24, 31: Jakarta. 24, 33; Jerusalem, 17, 25: Kiev. 11, 18; Kuala Lumpur, 24. 33: Lima 15, 18; Lisbon, 20. 30; London, 15, 22; Los Angeles. 17. 23; Madrid, 15, 31; Mania, 25, 30; Melbourne, 9, 15; Miami. 26, 30; Montreal. 15, 27; Moscow, 12, 19; New Delhi, 30, 11; New York. 15, 28; Nicosia, H, 35; Oslo, 11. 23; Paris, 15, !6; Rio. 19. 29: Rome, 15, 29; San Francisco, 12. 18: Sao Paulo, 15. 24; Seoul. 21. 31; Singapore, ’6, 31; Stockholm. 14. 17; Sydney. 3, 19; Taipei, 26. 34: Teheran, 25, 18; Tel Aviv, 23. 29; Tokyo. 23, T 7; Toronto. 15. 29: Vancouver, 12, 23; Vienna 16. 18.