NOON FORECAST
General forecast: A shallow depression to the north-east of the North Island is expected to remain slow-moving and the warm moist easterly flow is likely to continue to bring showers to the north and east of the North Island. A weak cold front is expected to become slowmoving about the south-east of the North Island during the day with a change to cool southerlies and a few showers but clearing skies to much of the South Island. There may be some coastal showers about the south of the South Island this afternoon.
District forecasts: Canterbury; Winds light and variable but tending to moderate north-easterly; mainly fine. Marlborough: South to southeast winds, fresh about the coast but moderate inland; a few showers about the coast at first, otherwise mainly fine. Cooler on the coajit but milder inland. Nelson: Moderate south-east winds predominating; fine and mild. Buller: Becoming fine with mild temperatures and light winds. Westland: Fine with light winds but sea breezes by afternoon. Outlook: Fine in all districts.
CHRISTCHURCH READINGS
Observations taken at the Meteorological Office. Christchurch Airport. yesterday. Barometer: 6 p.m. 1! p.m. Millibars 1014.1 1018.3 Temperature: . deg. Maximum (to 6 p.m.i . . 24 Rainfall: mm? 9 a.m. to 11 p.m 4 To date this month. ... 6 To date this year 20 To date last year 13 Average to date 78 Average for February. . 49 Wettest February (1945). 144 Driest February (1973). 5 Evapotranspiration . . 3.8 Sunshine: hrs Yesterday 7 hr 18 min To date this month 108 To date this year 378 To date last year . . 420 Average for February 185 Humidity: Per cent at noon .... 61 Per cent at 6 p.m.... 53 Temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 a m. yesterday Maximum 21 deg. minimum 13 deg. grass 12 deg. rainfall Nil SUN, MOON, AND TIDES Sun—Today; Rises. 6.45 a.m.; sets, 8.40 p.m. Tomorrow; Rises, 6.46 a.m.; sets 8.39 p.m. Moon—Today: Rises. 12.46 p.m.; sets. 1L36 p.m. Tomorrow. Rises. 1.54 p.m.; sets 12.07 a.m. High tide at Lyttelton-Today: 1016 . a.m. and 10.42 p.m. Tomorrow: 11.04 am. and 11.31 p.m. (Lake Forsyth, subtract 60min; Akaroa. subtract 45min. Port Levy, subtract 30min; Ashburton and Rakaia. subtract 25 min: Kaikoura add 17min; Kaiapoi and Sumner, add 30 ' min.)
Phases of Moon First quarter: February 21, 6.32 a.m. Full moon: February 27. 9.58 p.m. Last quarter: March 7.1.16 a.m. New moon: March 15. 5.43 a m. NOON WEATHER Auckland: 21deg, cloudy, ,E.. 15 knots. Wellington: 21deg, cloudy. N.. 8 knots. Christchurch: 21deg. cloudy. E.. 11 knots. Dunedin: 15deg, cloudy. S.W.. 13 knots. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main Australian cities yesterday were: Adelaide. 13. 25; Brisbane. 25. 32: Canberra. 12. 24; Hobart. 9. 20; Melbourne. 14. 20; Sydney. 20. 24. Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main cities of the world in the last 24 hours were: Amsterdam. -3. 1; Athens. 6. 8: Bahrain. 15. 22; Bangkok. 25. 34; Barbados. 22. 28; Beirut. 9, 16; Belgrade. —6. —3: Berlin, 5. 2; Brussels. —4. 1; Buenos Aires. 15, 27; Cairo. 15. 24; Copenhagen. —4. 4; Dublin. 1. 3: Frankfurt. —9, 20: Geneva. —3. —1; Havana. 18. 20: Helsinki. —7. —2: Hong Kong. 12. 19: Honolulu. 17. 25: Jakarta, 24. 32: Jerusalem. 5, 10; Johannesburg. 11, 26; Kuala Lumpur. 24, 33: Lisbon, 2. 10; London, —l. 5; Los Angeles, 11. 17: Madrid. —B. 7; Manila. 21. 33: Mexico City. 6. 23; Montreal. —6. 3: Moscow, —9. -4; New Delhi. 13. 24: New York. 2.7: Oslo. -8. 3; Paris. -3. 4: Peking. —lO. —1: Rio. 21. 39: Rome. 4. 9; San Francisco. 10.17: San Juan. 22. 27: Santiago. 14. 35. Sao Paulo. 21. 31; Seoul. 0. 4; Singapore. 25. 34: Stockholm. -3. 3; Tokyo. 1. 7; Toronto. 2. 5. Vancouver. 2. 10: Vienna. -11. -1
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