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Noon Forecast

General forecast: A cold front in the southern Tasman Sea is expected to reach the South Island during the day, bringing freshening southerly winds and cold showery weather to eastern districts of the South Island during the afternoon, but clearing weather to the West Coast. Distric forecasts: Canterbury: Cloudy, rain about the western ranges

becoming general; southerlies freshening; cool. Marlborough: Cloudy, increasingly fine inland; , coastal northerlies decreasing; cool. Nelson: Mainly fire; moderate south-westerlies; cool. Buller, Westland: Rain slowly cleaming; southerlies predominating; cool. Outlook: Showers in Canterbury and coastal Marlborough, mainly, fine elsewhere.

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

Observations taken at the Meteorological Office. Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer: 6 p.m. 11 p.m. ' Millibars .. 994.8 993.4 Temperature: deg. Maximum (to 6 p.m.) 16 Rainfall: 9 a.m. to 11 pm- •• Trace To date this month 9 To date this year .. 654 To date last year .. 587 Average to date -. 508 Average for October 46 Wettest October (1940 137 Driest October (1961) 3 Sunshine: hours Yesterday 7hr To date this month 117 To date this year 160 a To date last.year .. 1489 Average for October 192 Humidity: __ Per cent at noon .. 75 Per cent at 6 p.m. . . 88 Temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 am. yesterday. —Maximum 12deg. minimum 6deg, grass 4deg, rainfall trace.SUN, MOON, AND TIDES Sun —Today: Rises, 5.33 a.m.; sets, 6.56 p.m Tomorrow: Rises, 531 am.; sets, 6.58 pm. ... Moon— Today: Rises, 12.1 p.m.; sets, 2.4 am. Tomorrow: Rises, 1.7 p.m.; sets, 2.47 am. High, tide at Lyttelton.—Today: •■11.13 am. and 1138 pm. Tomorrow: 123. pm.

PHASES OF MOON Full moon: October 24, 9 a.m. Last quarter: October 31, 6 am. New moon: November 8, 10 am. First quarter: November 16, 5 am ’NOON WEATHER Auckland: 13deg, overcast, N.. 10 knots. , j wt in Wellington: 14deg, cloudy, N., 10 knots. , _ Christchurch: 14deg, partly cloudy, N.E., 14 knots Dunedin: 13deg, cloudy, N.E., 9 knots. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum ternperatures in the main cities of the world in the last 24 hours were:— t _ Adelaide 18, 24; Amsterdam 2, 13; Athens 19, 27; Bahrain 21, 32; Bangkok 26, 31; Beirut 18, 24;; Belgrade 11, 26; Berlin 1, 11; Brisbane 17. 25: Buenos Aires 18 26- Cairo 20, 33; Canberra 10, 22- Caracas 20, 29; Copenhagen 6,8; Dublin 7, 11: Frankfurt 5, 14; Geneva 7, 12; Helsinki 8, Hobart 5, 16; Honolulu 21, 31; Jakarta 24, 34; Jerusalem 18, 30;. Johannesburg 16, 29; Kuala Lumpur 23, 31; Lisbon 15, 17:_London 8, 11; Los Angeles la, 21; Madrid 8, IS; Manila 24 30; Melbourne 6. 17: Mexico City 14, 2a; Moscow 7, ]0; New Delhi 21, 35; New York 8, 14: Oslo 0,7; Rome 9, 19; San Francisco 11, 18; Seoul 11. 19: Singapore 23. 31; Stockholm 3,5; sydnev 15, 19; Tokyo 15, 19; Toronto 7,9; Vienna 4, 13.

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Press, 18 October 1980, Page 64

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Noon Forecast Press, 18 October 1980, Page 64

Noon Forecast Press, 18 October 1980, Page 64