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Press, 16 February 1982, Page 34

General forecast: Fine in most districts of the North Island, apart from some morning cloud in western districts. Strong northerlies about Cook Strait, and fresh westerlies elsewhere south of Taranaki. Over the South Island, cloudy in the west with a few showers in Fiordland. Isolated shotvers about Foveaux Strait with westerlies up to gale force at times, elsewhere fine. Hot during the day in eastern districts. District forecasts: Canterbury; Moderate variable winds about the coast, fresh north-west-erlies inland, fine with very warm day temperatures.

Nelson: Moderate westerlies predominating, but some sea breezes in the afternoon. fine and mild. Marlborough: Fine and mild, west or north-west winds predominating, strong about the Sounds, moderate elsewhere. Buller: Moderate westerlies predominating, cloudy at i. times but mainly fine and mild. Westland: Cloudy night and -■ morning, but mainly fine and mild' in the afternoon. moderate southwesterlies. Outlook: Cloudy on the west coast of the South Island with a few showers in Fiordland, mainly fine elsewhere.

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

Observations taken at the Meteorological Office. Christchurch Airport. yesterday Barometer: • 6 p.m. 11 pm. Millibars 1007.3 1010.7 Temperature: deg Maximum (to 6 p.m ) . . 37 Rainfall: mm. 9 am. to 11 p.m nil To date.this month. .... 1 To date this year. .... 13 To date last year. .... 18 Average to date 73 Average for February . . 49. Wettest February (194.51. ■ 144 Driest February (1973). . 5 Sunshine: hrs Yesterday 12 hr 42 min. To dale this month. ... 144 To dale this year. . . . 394 To date last year 362 Average tor. February . . 185 Humidity: Per cent al noon . 25 Per cent al 6-p.m .... 14 Temperatures and rainfall tor the 24 hours to 9 a m. yesterday: Maximum 23 deg. minimum 7 deg. grass 4 deg. raintail ni! SI N. MOON. AND TIDES Sun-Today: Rises. 6.50 a.m.; sets 8.36 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises. 6.51 a.m.: sets. 8.34 p.m. Moon-Today: Rises. 12.18 a.m.: seis. 2.41 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises. 12.49 a.m..' seis. 3.4 Q p.m. High tide al Lyttelton—Today: 12.5 p.m. Tomorrow: 12.31 a.m. and 12.51 p.m. (Lake Forsyth, subtract" 60min: Akaroa. subtract 45min, Port Levy, subtract 30min: Ashburton and Rakaia. subtract 25min; Kaikoura. add 17min: Kaiapoi and Sumner, add 30min.) Phases of Moon Last quarter: Today. 9 a m. New moon: February 24, It) a m.

First quarter: March 3. 11 a.m. Full moon: March 10. 9 a.m. NOON WEATHER Auckland: 22deg.. partly cloudy. S.W.. 15 knots. Wellington: 19deg.. fine. N.W., 20 knots. Christchurch: 29deg.. fine-, calm. Dunedin: 19deg, fine. S.E.. 16 knots.- ... , WORLD WEATHER Minimun and maximum temperatures in the main Australian cities yesterday were: Adelaide. 22. 29; Brisbane. 21. 27; Canberra. 16. 33; Darwin. 20. 27 (noon);. Hobart. 23. 39; Melbourne. 26. 38; Perth. 11. 20 (noon): Sydney. 21. 28. Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main cities of the world in the last 24 hours were: Amsterdam. 2. 11; Athens. 4. 15: Bangkok. 25. 33: Barbadoes. 21. 28; Beirut. 6. 14. Belgrade. -3. 6: Berlin. —l. 4; Bogota. 10. 18; Brussels. 7. 12; Buenos Aires. 18. 29; Cairo. 8. 17; Caracas. 19. 27: Chicago. -16. -4; Dublin. 4. 11; Frankfurt,—2.ll; Geneva. - 2. 12; Havana. 21. 29; Helsinki. - 1. 1: Hong Kong. 11. 13; Honolulu. 22. 26: Jakarta. 23. 31; Jerusalem. 5. 9: Johannesburg. 18. 28: Kiev. —7, —4: Kuala Lumpur. 23. 32: Lima. 18, 24; Lisbon. 11. 16; London. 5,9; Los Angeles. 12. 23: Madrid, 3, 10; Manila. 22. 31. Miami. 24, 31; Montevideo. 19. 32; Montreal. —l4. -6: Moscow, -4. . -3; Nassau. 19. 28: New Delhi. 11. 22: New York. -1. 1; Oslo. - 2. —I; Paris. 3. 11: Rio. 29. 38: Rome. 7. 15; San Francisco, 11. 15; San Juan. 22. 30: Santiago. 12. 30. Sao Paulo, 19. 32: Seoul. -4. 7: Singapore. 25. 33: Stockholm. -2. 2; Taipei. 13. 16; Tel Aviv. 9. ■ 15: Tokyo. 2. 10; Toronto. -8. —3; Vancouver. 4.7: Vienna. -2. -1.