Noon Forecast

Press, 26 December 1979, Page 20

Noon Forecast

General forecast: A trough of low pressure is moving on to the North Island and may become slow-moving over the northeast districts. A warm, moist, northerly flow on its eastern side will bring heavier rain to the Bay of Plenty and the centra' high country. The band of rain will affect the northern half of the North Island but should slowly clear from the more western parts during the day. with a change to cooler south-westerlies. Only scattered rain is expected over Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne though it may be heavy in the ranges. Over south-west-ern parts of the North Is-

.land an improvement to fine j weather with moderate [southerly or south-westerly 'winds should spread over iWairarapa also from early 'this morning. Over the South Island a weak disturbance in the westerly flow lover the Tasman Sea will [spread on to the west‘and 'south, maintaining showers [in Buller, Westland, Fiordiland. and coastal Southland. 'Elsewhere, fine weather is [expected with light or moderate south-westerlies. District forecasts: Christchurch, Ashburton, Ti-I maru: fine. Nelson. Blenheim: fine. Westport, Greymouth, Hoki-; tika: showers.

GHRISTCHIRCH READINGS

Observation* taken at th< Meteorological Office. Christ church Xirport. yesterday Birrmeter: fio.m. llp.m Millibars 1006.3 1013.1 Temperature. deg Maximum (to 6 pm.- ‘i Rainfall: mm 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Trace Monday- C 10 date this month 14 To date this year . - 7-sfl To date last year . 909 Average to date 630 Average for De<-. 52 Wettest Dec ’944) 14* Driest Dec. <1943» S Sunshine: hours Yesterday: 9hr 6min Monday: 4hr 30min To date this month 219 To date this year 2006 To date last year . - 2064 Average for Dec. .. 20S Humidity: Per cent at noon . 32 Per cent at 6 p m. . 51 Temperatures and rainfall foi th* 24 hours to Q a.m vesterdev. —Maximum 3*deg. minimum 21 deg, grass 20deg, rainfall nil. SUN. MOON ANO TIDES Sun-Today: Rises, 5.47 a.m.; sets. 9.12 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 5.48 a.m.; sets, 9.13 Moon-Toda’: Rises, 1.14 p.m.; sets. 1.12 a.m. Tomorrow: Rises. 2.24 pjn.; sets, 1.44 High t*de at L-tt*!ton—Todav: 11.11 a m. and 11.41 P.m. Tomorrow: 12.6 p.m. and —• Phases of Moon First nuarter: December 26. 6 p.m Full moon: Januarv 2, 10 pm

e.’Last quarter: January 11, 1 a m ■ New moon: .January 18, 10 a.m. NOON WEATHER ! Auckland: 22deg, partly cloudy, .X.E.. 15 knots. , Wellington 13ueg, cloudy, N., 13 knots. (Christchurch: 28deg, partly ‘ cloudy, X.W., .19 knots. • Dunedin: 12deg, rain, S.W., 5 •, knots. 11 WORLD WEATHER ' Minimum and maximum tern- : peratures in the main cities of .‘the world in the last 24 hours ’! were:— Adelaide, 12, 23; Amsterdam, —2, 3; Athens. 13, 16; Bahrain, 13, 19; Bangkok, 26, 32; Beirut, 12, 18; Belgrade, 7, 11; Berlin, I—l, 4; Bogota. 9, 18; Brisbane, 21, 31; Brussels, —l, 4; Buenos ; Aires, 18, 25; Cairo, 6, 21; Can.berra, 12, 28; Chicago. 7, 15; Copenhagen, 3,5; Curitiba, 16, 18; Denpasar, 24, 32; Dublin, —l, 4; Frankfurt, 0,4; Geneva, 0,3; ’Helsinki, 1,4; Hobart, 11, 22; Hong Kong, 12, 13: Honolulu. 24. 30; Jakarta. 24. 31; Jerusalem. 5, 15; Johannesburg. 13, 23; Kiev, '—3. 0; Kuala Lumpur, 23, 33; I Lima, 18. 24; Lisbone. 8. Lon-, don. 2.6; Los Angeles. 7. 16; Madrid, 8. 9; Manila 22, 30; Mel-f bourne. 11, 24; Mexico City, 8,. :23; Miami. 16. 26; Montreal, 2, jj; Moscow. —l3. —6; New Delhi,; 9, 22; -New York, 7, 11; Nicosia,. .6, 19; Oslo, —l. —I; Paris. l,| IS; Rio de Janeiro, 23. 29; Rome? 1. 11; San Francisco, 9, 11: San Juan. 23. 29; Sao Paulo, 18, 20; Seoul. —lO. —3; Singapore. 23, 31; Stockholm, 3. 5; Sydney, iB, 23; Taipei, 15, 19: Tel Aviv. 20: Tokyo. 5. 8; Toronto. 4, Vancouver, —l. 7; Vienna, Z, ’• I