Noon Forecast

Press, 25 August 1980, Page 32

Noon Forecast

General forecast: A north-westerly airstream flows over the Tasman Sea and New Zealand. The front within this flow will probably move slowly over the South Island today, with rain on the West Coast, -but it should be dry in the east, from Marlborough to North Otago. District forecasts: Canterbury: cloudy, rain about the alps, mainly dry

and mild, freshening north-westerlies inland, moderate coastal northeasterlies. Marlborough, Nelson: Cloudy, showers developing; northwesterlies ' slowly freshening; cool. Buller, Westland: Cloudy, rain spreading north; moderate northerlies; cool. Outlook; Showers on the West Coast, mainly fine elsewhere..

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

Observations taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer: 6 p.m. 11 p.m. Millibars .. 1013.8 1012.7 Temperatures: deg. Rainfall: mm- ■ 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. .. 0 Maximum' (to 6 p.m.) Io To date this month 34 To date this year .. 551 To date last yea, .. 491 Average to date ... 430 Average for August 5a Wettest (1975) .. 14? Driest (1948)... ... 5 Sunshine: „ hours Yesterday: lOhr 12mm Saturday: lOhr 36min • To' date this month 142 To date this year .. 1244 To date last year .. 1268 Average for August 146 Humidity: Per cent at noon .. 50 : Per cent at 6 p.m. .. 70

Temperatures and rainfall _for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday. Maximum 20deg. minimum —1 deg. grass —4deg, rainfall nil. SUN, MOON, AND TIDES Sun—Todav: Rises, 7.9 a.m.; sets, 5.55 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 7.7 a.m.; sets. 5.56 p.m. Moon— Today: Rises, 4.43 p.m.; sets, 6.20 a.m. Tomorrow: . Rises, 5.56 p.m.; sets, 7.30 ' a.m. _ . High tide at Lyttelton—Today: 2.59 a.m. and 3.25 p.m. Tth morrow: 3.48 a.m. and 4.15 p.m. ■' Phases of Moon Full moon: Tomorrow, 4 p.m.

Last quarter: September 2, 6 a.m. New moon: September 9, 10 p.m. First quarter; September 18, 2 a.m. NOON WEATHER Auckland: 15deg, cloudy, w.. 7 knots. , , Wellington: 13deg, partly cloudy, n., 11 knots. Christchurch: 14deg, fine, calm. Dunedin: 13deg, fine, calm. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main cities of the world in the last 24 hours were:— . ’ Adelaide, 9, 15; 'Amsterdam, 11, 17: Athens, 20. - 32; Bahrain. 30, 37 Bangkok, 28, 32; Beirut, 23, 28; Belgrade, 14. 17; Berlin. 10, 17- Bogota. 6, 18; Brisbane, 15, 25; Brussels, 13. 18; Buenos Aires, 7 19; Cairo, 16. 31; Canberra, 6 14; Caracas. 20, 30; Chicago, 16, 29; Copenhagen, 14, 17; Dub-' lin. 10, 18; Frankfurt, 9, 19; Geneva, 13, 25; Helsinki, 10, 18; Hobart, 8, 18; Hong Kong, 27, 31; Honolulu, 22, 32; Jakarta, 23, 33; Jerusalem. 17, 27; Johannesburg, 6. 20; Kuala Lumpur, 22, 31; Lima, 15, 18; Lisbon. 24, 33’, London. 11. 20; Los Angeles. 23; Madrid, 22, 38; Manila, 25,32; Melbourne. 11, 17; Moscow. 12. 16; New Delhi. 28, 37; New York, 20. 27; Nicosia. 22, 35; Oslo, 13, 17: Paris, 13. 19; Rome, 18, 26; San Francisco, 11. 14; Seoul. 22, 30; Singapore, 25. 31; Stockholm, 10. 14; Sydney, 13, 22; Tokyo, 23, 27; Toronto. 20. 23, Vancouver, 17. 20; Vienna, 15, 20.