Noon Forecast

Press, 23 October 1980, Page 30

Noon Forecast

General forecast: The trough of low pressure to the north of New Zealand is slow moving and a cloudy easterly airstream will continue to give a few showers to northern districts today. The anti-cyclone in Tasman Sea is intensifying as it moves eastwards and fine weather is expected over much of the South Island and the lower half of the North Island today. District forecasts: Canterbury: Isolated showers overnight, with _ fresh south-westerlies in ex-

Observations taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer: 6 p.m. 11p.m. Millibars .. 1015.0 1021.7 Temperature: deg. Maximum (t 06 p.m.) 26 Rainfall: mm. 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. .. Trace To date this month 11 To date this year .. 565 To date last year .. 594 Average to date .. 516 Average for October 46 Wettest October (1947) 137 Driest October (1961) 3 Sunshine: hours Yesterday Bhr 54min To date this month 158 To date this year .' 1645 : To date last year •• 1522 Average for October 192 Humidity: Per cent at noon .. 29 Per cent at 6 pjn. .. 70 Temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 am. yesterday. —Maximum 20deg. minimum 7deg. grass 4deg, rainfall nil. SUN, MOON. AND TIDES Sun —Today: Rises, 5.25 am. sets, 7.3 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 5.24 am.; sets, 7.4 p.m :*/■' Moon—Today:Rises, 6.4 p.m.; sets, 5.12 am. Tomorrow: Rises, 7JI pm.; sets, 5.47 a.m. v '.,vY'. ■ ■■* High tide at Lyttelton.—Today: 3.5 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Tomorrow: 3.59 am. and 4.26 pm.. PHASES OF MOON Full moon: Tomorrow, 9 am. • Last quarter:' October 31, 6 am. New moon: November 8. 10 am.

posed places; mild in the afternoon. Marlborough: North-wester-lies dying out and the weather becoming fine with light winds; mainly southerly; mild in the afternoon. Nelson: Cloudy, with a few showers about the ranges at first, but fine with light winds; mild in the afternoon. Buller, Westland: Showers clearing by morning and the weather fine and mild, with light winds. Outlook: Fine.

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

First quarter: November 16, 5 a.m. NOON WEATHER Auckland: 17deg, overcast, N.E.,

13 knots. , , Wellington: 15deg, cloudy, N.W., 20 knots. Christchurch: 24deg, partly cloudy, N.W., 10 knots. Dunedin: 18deg, partly cloudy, S.W., 14 knots. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main cities, of the world in the last 24 hours were:—

Adelaide 18, 34; 13; Athens 15, 21; Bahrain 29, 34; Bangkok 27, 29; Berut 19, 26; Belgrade 5, 12; Berlin 27; Bogota 3, 19: Brisbane .19, 29; Brussels 4, 10; Buenos. Aires-18, 24; Cairo 17,. 32; Canberra 10, 26; Caracas 20, 29; Chicago 6, 15; Copenhagen 3,9; Frankfurt 3. 9; Geneva 0, 13; Hobart 12. 26; Hong Kong 24, 27; Honolulu 23, 30; Jakarta 24, 33; Jerusalem 18, 30; -’Johannesburg 7, 22; Kiev 7, 11; Kuala Lumpur 23, 32; Lima 15, 18; Lisbon 10, 20; London 9, 16; Los Angeles 16, 33; Madrid 2. 19; Manila 23, 26; Melbourne 11, 26; Mexico City 12, 23: Miami 24, 31; Montreal 1,8; Moscow 8, 13; New Delhi 20, 32; New York 8, 15; Nicosia 18, 33; Oslo 3,8; Paris 6, 15; Perth 9, 15; Rio de Janeiro 20, 39; Rome 11. 20; San Francisco 9, 23: San Juan 26, 34; Sao Paulo 21, 32; Seoul 5, 13; Singapore 23, 30; Stockholm 4. 7; Sydney 17, 21- Taipei 21, 27; Tel Aviv 17, 27; Tokyo 16, 18; Toronto 5, 9- Vancouver 10, 16; Vienna 2, 14. ■