Noon Forecast

Press, 15 July 1980, Page 28

Noon Forecast

General forecast: The cold front over the south of the South Island is moving rapidly north-east, bringing strong cold sotherlies and occasional showers .to eastern districts, but mainly fine weather to the West Coast. In the South Island the showers should be confined to the east coast by late in the day, but some showers are still expected in the west and north of the North Island.

Canterbury: Southerly change, but winds moderating; showers spreading north, but fine intervals increasing; cold. Marlborough: Strong southerlies moderating; mainly fine inland; cold.

N e 1 s on : Southwesterlies, fresh at times; fine; cold. Buller, Westland: Southerlies gradually prevailing; becomnig mainly fine; cold. Outlook: Fine.

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

Observations taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer: 6 p.m. 11 p.m. Millibars • • 994.4 999. a Temperature: deg. Maximum (to 6 p.m.)- 11 Rainfall: mm. 9 a.m. to 11 pm. ..' Trace To date this month 8 To date this year .. 492 To date last year .. 362 Average to date •• 359 Average for July .. 55 Wettest July (1977) .. 181 Driest July (1967) .. 5 Sunshine: hours

Yesterday: 7hr 6min To date this month 44 To date this year . - 1011 To date last year .. 1094 Average for July .. 122 Humidity: Per cent at noon .. 70 Per cent at 6 p.m. .. 77 Temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday. —Maximum 9deg, minimum Odeg, grass —4deg, rainfall 4mm. SUN, MOON AND TIDES

Sun—Today: Rises, 7.57 a.m.; sets, 5.13 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 7.57a.m.; sets. 5.14 p.m. Moon—Todav: Rises, 9.37 a.m.; sets, 8.12 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 10.9 a.m.; sets, 9.12

p.m. High tide at Lyttelton—Today: 6.42 a.m. and 7.8 pun. Tomorrow: 7.37 a.m. and 8 p.m Phases of Moon First quarter: July 20. 6 p.m. Full moon: July 28, 7 a.m.

Last quarter: August 4, midnight. New moon: August 11, 7 a.m. NOON WEATHER Auckland: 14deg, partly cloudy, w., 23 knots. Wellington: lOdeg, cloudy, s.w„ 12 knots. Chirstchurch: 9deg. fine, calm. Dunedin. Bdeg, cloudy, w., 11 knots. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main cities of the world in the last 24 hours were:— Adelaide. 10, 17; Amsterdam, 12, 18: Athens, 23, 34; Bangkok, 29, 32; Beirut. 24, 30; Belgrade, 13, 24; Bogota, 9, 19; Brisbane, 9 23; Brussels, 11, 18; Buenos Aires, 5. 17; Cairo, 27. 42: Canberra, —l, 13; Caracas, 21, 28; Chicago. 24, 34; Copenhagen, 13, 17; Dublin, 10. 17: Frankfurt, 10, 18; Geneva, 10. 15: Helsinki, 11, 20; Hong Kong. 25, 29; Honolulu, 23, 30; Jakarta, 24. 33; Jerusalem. 20 ”5: Johannesburg, 6, 18; Kuala qumpur, 24, 32; Lima, 16. 19; Lisbon. 19. 33: London. 11, 19; Los Angles, 18, 29; Madrid, 10, 34; Manila. 23, 33; Melbourne. 9, 16; Miami. 23 . 34; Montreal. 11, IS; Moscow, 11. Io; New Delhi, 26, 34; New York, 21, 29; Nicosia. 24. 40; Oslo. 13, 18; Paris, 11, 18; Rio, 16, 29; Rome, 16, 26; San Francisco, 12. 16; Seoul, 22, 28; Singapore. 25, 33; Stockholm. 14. 19; Sydney, 12, 19; Tokyo. 19, 27;Toronto, 16. 24; Vancouver, 12. 18; Vienna. IS, 23.