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Press, 9 January 1984, Page 32

General forecast: A ridge of high pressure should lie over the North Island today with fine weather. A north-westerly flow over the South Island should bring cloud to the West Coast and a few showers to Fiordland and Foveaux Strait, but fine weather elsewhere, with inland areas becoming warm. District forecasts: Canterbury: Fine apart from some cloud; moderate, mild north-easterlies

on the coast and warm north-westerlies inland. Marlborough: Fine and mild; northerlies freshening about Cook Strait. Nelson, Buller: Cloud at first, otherwise fine and mild; afternoon sea breezes. Westland: Cloudy; moderate variable winds, afternoon sea breezes. Tomorrow: Fine in Canterbury; mainly fine, northerlies in Marlborough, Nelson and Buller; showers in Westland.

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

Observations taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer: .... 6 p.m. 11p.m. MiHibars .... 1013.6 1014.3 Temperature: deg. Maximum (to 6 p.m.) . . 19 Rainfall: mm. 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. nil Saturday. . ~ nil To date this month. ... 12 To date this year 12 To date last year 2 Average to date 13 Average for January. . . 51 Wettest January (1980). . 139 Driest January (1954) . . 8 Evapotranspiration: Saturday. . . 4.9 Do, Sunday 6 Sunshine. hrs Saturday 8 hr 30 min Yesterday 11 hr min To date this month 69 To date this year 69 To date last year 77 Average for January. ... 209 Humtaty: Per fent at noon 60 Per cent at 6 p.m 60 Ter .peratures and rainfall for the 21 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday: Maxi sum 19 deg, minimum Bdeg, grass sdeg, rainfall nil SUN, MOON, AND TIDES %n — Today: Rises, 5.59 a.m.; sets, 9.12 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 6.00 a.m.; sets, 9.12 Moon — Today: Rises, 11.19 a.m.; sets 12.35 a.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 12.20 p.m.; sets 12.56 a.m. High tide at Lyttelton - Today: 10.03 a.m. and 10.27 p.m. Tomorrow: 10.45 a.m. and 11.10 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 First quarter: January 11.

Full moon: January 19. Last quarter: January 25. New moon: February 2. NOON WEATHER Auckland: 21deg., cloudy, E., 6 knots. Wellington: 19deg., cloudy, S.E., 5 knots. Christchurch: 18deg., cloudy, E., 13 knots. Dunedin: 17deg., partly cloudy, S.E., 5 knots. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main Australian cities yesterday were: Adelaide, 13, 27; Brisbane, 20, 27; Canberra, 13, 27; Darwin, 24, 30 (noon); Hobart, 13, 24; Melbourne, 13, 23; Perth, 20, 31 (noon); Sydney, 19. 27. Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main cities of the world in the last 24 hours were.— Amsterdam, 3,7; Athens, 9, 14; Bahrain, 15, 20; Bangkok, 19, 29; Barbados, 24, 30; Beirut, 10, 19; Belgrade, 1,4; Berlin, 0, 5; Brussels,, 0,8; Buenos Aires, 25, 32; Cairo, 7,18; Caracas, 18, 28; Chicago, —3, 2; Copenhagen, 4,5; Denpasar, 24, 30; Dublin, 2,7; Frankfurt, 2,4; Geneva, —4, 5; Havana, 21, 25; Hong Kong, 11, 17; Honolulu, 20, 27; Jakarta, 23, 31; Jerusalem, 8, 13; Johannesburg, 13, 28; Kuala Lumpur, 23, 32; Lima, 19, 25; Lisbon, 10, 16; London, 7,8; Los Angeles, 11. 22; Madrid, -1, 10; Manila, 20, 30; Mexico City, 6,6; Montevideo, 22, 33; Montreal, 0,2; Moscow, —4, 0; Nassau, 16, 23; New Delhi, 7, 19; New York, 4, 6; Nicosia, 9, 16; Oslo, —3, -2; Paris, 6, 11; Peking, -9, 2; Rio de Janeiro, 23, 39; Rome, 2, 11; San Francisco, 5, 12; Santiago, 14, 29; Sao Paulo, 21, 29; Seoul, —9, —2; Singapore, 23, 29; Stockholm, —26, 4; Taipei, 11, 16; Tel Aviv, 11, 18; Tokyo, 0,9; Toronto, 0,4; Vancouver, 6,9; Vienna, 2,5; Warsaw, —l, 2.