Noon Forecast

Press, 22 October 1980, Page 42

Noon Forecast

General Forecast: A cold front is expected to advance across the South Island today with a band of rain but only scattered falls spreading to the east; This front will be followed by cooler westerly winds with isolated showers but mainly fine weather. District forecasts: Canterbury: Cloudy by morning with rain in the ranges and scattered falls spreading to the east but Clearing again in the afternoon; moderate, vanable winds; cooler today. Marlborough: Northerlies fresh in exposed places decreasing today and pos-

sibly turning to cooler southerlies; cloud increasing and occasional rain. Nelson: Winds light today; cloud increasing and rain developing but probably clearing later today. Buller: Moderate northerlies predominating; cloudy and cool with rain developing by morning but probably clearing again late today ■ and winds becoming variable. , . Westland: Rain clearing today apart from isolated showers; northerlies at first, cooler south-west-erlies developing todays Outlook: Mainly fine in all districts.

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

Observatlons taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer: 6 P.m. Millibars •• WM.7 1011.4

Temperature: • deg. Maximum (to 6 p.m.) Rainfall: lam - 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. •• ® To date this month 11 To date this year .. 565 To date last year .. 587 Average to date.. 51a Average for October 46 Wettest October (1947) 137 Driest October 41961) 3 Sunshine: hours Yesterday: llhr 36min - To date this month 149 .To date this year ... 1“7 To date last year .. 1513 Average for October 1« Humidity: • Per cent at noon .. 34 Per cent at 6 pm. .. 5a

Temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 am. yesterday. —Maximum 16deg, minimum 3 deg. grass —2deg, rainfall nil.

SUN, MOON, AND TIDES Sun —Today: Rises, 527 a.m.; sets, T2 pun. Tomorrow: . Rises, 5.25 a.m.; sets, 7.3 pjn. Moon— Today: Rises, 4.46 pan.; sets, 4.38 a.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 6.4 pun.; sets, 5.12 a.m.

High tide at Lyttelton.—Today: 2.12 a.m. and 2.47 p.m. Tomorrow: 3.5 a.m. and 3.30 pun. PHASES OF MOON Full moon: October 24, 9 a.m. Last quarter: October 31, 6 a.m. New moon: November 8, 10 a.m. First quarter; November 16, 5 a.m. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main cities of the world in the last 24 hours were:— Adelaide, 9, 26; Amsterdam. 8, 12; Athens, 20. 26; Bahrain, 23, 32; Bangkok, 27, 33; Belgrade, 8 13; Berlin, 3, 10; Brisbane, 2i. 31; Brussels, 1. 10; Buenos Aires, 15, 21; Cairo, 18, 31; Canberra. 12, 24; Copenhagen, 5, 10; Dublin, 6, 14; Frankfurt, 4. 11; Geneva. —l, 10; Helsinki, 8, 13; Hobart, 11, 20; Hong Kong, 24, 27; Honolulu. 23, 31; Jakarta, 24, 33; Jerusalem, 14, 26; Johannesburg, 4, 20; Kuala Lumpur, 24 31; London. 7. 13; Los Angeles, 16, 31; Madrid, 3, 17; Manila, 23, 31; Melbourne, 9, 24; Montreal. 8, 13; Moscow, 4, 10; New Delhi, 22. 32; New York, 15 19; Oslo, 4,6; Pans, 9, 14; Perth. 13. 20; Rio, 19, 36; Rome, 11, 20; San Francisco, 11, 20; Seoul. 12, 22; Singapore, 25, 32; Stockholm, 6,9; Sydney. 17, 21; Tokyo, 17, 21; Toronto, 9, 10; Vancouver, 8, 15; Vienna, 8, 13.