Noon Forecast

Press, 21 October 1980, Page 40

Noon Forecast

General forecast: A large anti-cyclone east of New Zealand should maintain settled weather over most of the country, with light winds apart from sea breezes.' However, a shallow depression. .is moving eastwards to the north of New Zealand, giving considerable high cloud.over the northern half of. the island at first. A north-west flow spreading across the south Tasman Sea is expected to give showers in Fiordland and freshening northerly winds in the far south. District forecasts: Canterbury: Afternoon showers about the Alps other-

wise weather fine and cool; north-easterlies, fresh about the coast.

Marlborough, Nelson: Sea breezes about the coast, otherwise light winds; fine and mild. Buller: Moderate winds, mainly between north and west; fine apart from morning mist and low cloud; mild by day. Westland: Moderate winds between north and west predominating; fine, apart from morning mist and low cloud; mild by day.

Outlook: Mainly fine in most districts, except Westland where showers are likely.

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

observations taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer: 6 p.m. Mp-m-Millibars •• 1022 1021.4 Temperature: degMaximum (to 6 p.m.) Io Rainfall: 9 a.m. to 11 p-m. •• y To date this month 11 To date this year .. 565 To date last year .. 58/ Average to date .. 513 Average for October 46 Wettest October (1947) . 137 Driest October (1961) 3 Sunshine: hours Yesterday: llhr 48min To date this month 138 To date this , year .. 162 a To date last year .. 1510 Average for October 192 Humidity: - ' Per cent at noon .. o? Per cent at 6 p.m. .. 70 Temperatures and • rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 ajn. yesterday. —Maximum 15deg, minimum 3deg.- grass —2deg, rainfall nil. SUN, MOON, AND TIDES Sun —Today: Rises,' 528 ajn.; sets, 7 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 527 am.; sets, 72 pm. Moon— Today: Rises, 3.31 pm.; sets, 4.4 am. Tomorrow: Rises, 4.46 p.m.; sets, 428 a.m. High tide at Lyttelton.—Today: 121 a.m. and 1.45 pan. Tomorrow: 2.12 a.m. and .2.47 pm.

PHASES OF MOON Full moon: October 24. 9 am. Last quarter: October 31, 6 a.m. New moon: November 8, 10 am.

First quarter: November 16, 5 a.m.

NOON WEATHER Auckland: 16deg, cloudy, E-, 15 knots. Wellington: 15deg, fine, E., 5 knots. „ _ Christchurch: lldeg, cloudy, E., 10 knots. Dunedin: 16deg> fine. N.E.> 5 knots. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main cities of the world in the last 24 hours were: — Adelaide 14, 19; Amsterdam 5, 12; Athens 19, 27; Bahrain 23, 31; Bangkok 26, 32; Beirut 18, 25;' Belgrade 13, 19; Berlin 8, 11; Bogota 10, 19; Brisbane 19, 26; Brussels 5, 11; Buenos Aires 15, 21; Cairo 18, 31; Canberra 10, 20; Caracas 19, 29; Chicago 6, 14- Copenhagen 6, 12; Dublin 5, 12; Frankfurt 7, 12; Geneva 6, 8; Helsinki 10, 13; Hobart 12, 21; Hong Kong 25, 29; Honolulu 23, 30; Jakarta 24, 33; Jerusalem 14, 26- Johannesburg 11, 29; Kiev 6, 18; Kuala Lumpur 22, 32; London 4, 11; Lps Angeles 13, 29; Madrid 4, 14; Manila 23, 31; Melbourne 15, 21; Miami 26, 28; Montreal 8, 20; Moscow 2, 11; New Delhi 23, 33; New York'l7, 23- Nicosia 15. 32: Oslo 6,8; Paris 3, 11; Perth-13, 20; Rio de Janeiro 19, 35: Rome 13, 20; San Francisco 10, 18; San Juan 26, 34; Sao Paulo 17, 30; Seoul 8, 23; Singapore 24, 31; Stockholm 9, 12; Sydney 17, 23: Taipei 21, 28; Tel Aviv 17, 27; Tokvo 17, 21; Toronto 9. 17; Vancouver 8, 14; Vienna 12, 18.