Noon Forecast

Press, 11 July 1980, Page 24

Noon Forecast

General forecast: A south-westerly airstream is expected to persist over New Zealand, with further wintry showers in the south of the South Island and scattered showers spreading into other parts of the country at times. The cold front is expected ot spread northwards over the country during the day, but to become weak. Canterbury: West or southwest winds, fresh at times with some snow showers in the alps. Cold. Buller: Cloudy and cold with occasional showers; moderate west to south-west . winds.

Westland: Fine at first in the south. Otherwise mainly cloudy with occasional showers. Cold, with moderate south-westerlies. 1 Marlborough: Moderate ; westerlies predominating with cooler south-west- * erlies on the Kaikoura coast. Fine, apart from isolated showers. Nelson: Moderate southwesterlies predominating. Showery periods in the western ranges with snow. . Mainly fine elsewhere. Outlook: Scattered showers in Canterbury, Buller and Westland; mainly fine in Nelson and Marlborough.

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Observations taken at the Jleteorologieal Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer: 6 p.m. 11p.m. Millibars .. 997.8 997.3 Temperature: deg. 1 Maximum (to 6 p.m.) 9 Rainfall: mm. 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Trace To date this month 2 To date this year .. 486 To date last year .. 362 Average to date .. 352 Average for Julv .. 55 Wettest July (1977) .. 181 Driest July (19671 .. 5i Sunshine: hours Yesterday shr 18mln To date this month 35 To date this year •• 1002 To date last year ■ ■ 1077 Average for July .. 122 Humiditv: Per cent at noon .. 58 Per cent at 6 p.m. . . 73 Temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday. —Maximum 14deg, minimum Ideg, grass —4deg. rainfall nil. SUN, MOON AND TIDES Sun —Todav: Rises, 7.59 a.m.: sets. 5.10 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 7,59 a.m.; sets. 5.11 p.m Jfoon —Todav: Rises. 6 32 a.m.; sets, 4.15 p.m. Tomorrow:

Rises. 7.28 a.m.; sets, 5.11 p.m. High tide at Lyttelton—Today: 3.9 a.m. and 3.37 p.m. Tomorrow: 3.59 a.m. and 4.28 p.m. Phases of Moon New moon: July 12. 7 p.m. First quarter: July 20. 6 p.m. Full moon: July 28, 7 a.m. Last quarter: August 4, midnight. NOON WEATHER Auckland: 14deg. cloudy, W., 11 knots. Wellington: Ude?. partly cloudy, N.W., 14 knots. Christel'. 9deg, cloudy, S.W., 19 knots. Dunedin: Jdeg. cloudy. S.W., 15 knots. WORLD WEATHER Adelaide 3, 15; Amsterdam 12. 17; Athens 22, 34; Bahrain 30, 38: Bangkok 27. 31; Beirut 22, 28; Belgrade 20. 32: Berlin 11, 20: Bogota 5, 18; Brisbane 8. 19; Brussels 8. 18: Buenos Aires 7. 12; Cairo 21, 34; Canberra —5, 11; Caracas 22. 30: Chicago 22, 27; Copenhagen 15, 19; Dublin 11, 18: Frankfurt 12, 19: Geneva 12. 16: Helsinki 14, 21; Hong Kong 28. 33: Jakarta 24. 33; Jerusalem 16. 25: Johannesburg 1, 14; Kuala Lumpur 24, 32;