General forecast: Occasional showers developing in Fiordland, Westland and Southland tomorrow, elsewhere continuing fine. District forecasts: Canterbury: Moderate north-easterlies about the coast and warmer northwesterlies developing inland. Cloudy areas morning and night in the east and high cloud increasing in the west, with showers in the Alps later. Marlborough: Moderate north-easterlies, fine, mild. Nelson: Moderate northeasterlies; continuing fine, but with some increase in cloud.
Buller: Moderate northerlies; becoming cloudy with possibly a few showers later. Westland: Moderate northerlies; high cloud increasing and scattered showers developing. Tomorrow: Fine in Canterbury and Marlborough, except for showers in the Alps and Sounds; scattered showers elsewhere. Extended range forecast for the South Island until Sunday: On the West Coast, wet weather is expected to continue; elsewhere fine apart from cold, showery south-west-erlies developing in the south on Sunday.
CHRISTCHURCH READINGS
Observations taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer: .... 6 p.m. 11p.m. Millibars .... 1017.9 1017.9 Temperature: deg. Maximum (to 6 p.m.) . . 18 Rainfall: mm. 9 a.m. to 11 p.m nil To date this month. ... 18 To date this year 107 To date last year 17 Average to date 63 Average for February. . 45 Wettest February (1945). 144 Driest February (1973). . . 5 Evapotranspiration .... 4.7 mm Sunshine: hrs Yesterday 12 hr 36 min To date this month. ... 46 To date this year 295 To date last year 307 Average for February. . 186 Humidity: Per cent at noon 57 Per cent at 6 p.m 61 Temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday: Maximum 18 deg, minimum 10 deg, grass 7 deg, rainfall nil SUN, MOON, AND TIDES Sun — Today: Rises. 6.40 a.m.; sets, 8.47 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises. 6.41 a.m.; sets, 8.46 p.m. Moon — Today: Rises, 1.18 p.m.: sets, 12.04 a.m. Tomorrow: Rises. 2.24 p.m.; sets 12.31 a.m. High tide at Lyttelton — Today: 10.56 a.m. and 11.21 p.m. Tomorrow: 11.41 a.m. and 12.07 a.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: Tomorrow.
Full moon: February 17. Last quarter: February 24. New moon: March 3. NOON WEATHER Auckland: 20deg., cloudy. E., 5 knots. Wellington: 18deg., fine, E.. 5 knots, Christchurch: 17deg.. partly cloudy, N.E., 18 knots. Dunedin: 16deg„ fine. N., 13 knots. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main Australian cities yesterday were: Adelaide 15, 27; Brisbane: 22, 30; Canberra: 14, 25; Hobart: 12. 23; Melbourne: 15. 21; Perth: 21, 34, Sydney: 19, 23. Temperatures in the main cities of the world in the last 24 hours were: Amsterdam. 1. 8; Athens. 7. 13; Bahrain. 16. 22: Bangkok. 22, 30: Barbados, 24. 28; Beirut. 13. 17; Belgrade. 2,9; Berlin. 1, 5; Bogota, 3, 19; Brussels. 0. 8; Buenos Aires, 12, 27; Cairo. 7. 23; Caracas, 18. 28; Chicago. — 16. —11; Copenhagen. 1. 4; Dublin. 4. 8; Frankfurt. 3. 9; Geneva, —l, 5; Havana. 20. 23; Helsinki. —l, 2; Hong Kong. 8. 13; Honolulu. 15. 26; Jakarta. 25. 30; Jerusalem. 8. 13; Johannesburg, 22, 29; Kuala Lumpur. 23, 30; Lima. 20, 26; Lisbon. 7. 17; London, 7. 8; Los Angeles. 12, 28; Madrid. —l, 15; Manila. 21, 33; Mexico City-, 8 20; Montevideo. 13. 23; Moscow. — 13, —8; Nassau. 17. 24. New Delhi, 5. 22; New York. 0,6: Nicosia, 10. 18; Oslo. —3. 2; Paris. 6. 10; Peking. —l2. 0; Rio de Janeiro. 23. 40: Rome. 3. 15; San Francisco. 9. 17; Santiago. 10, 30; Seoul, -14. -6: Singapore. 23. 28; Stockholm. 0. 2; Tokyo, —3. 3; Toronto. —9. —8; Vancouver. 5. 10, Vienna. 3. 6; Warsaw. 0. 4.
Untitled
Press, 9 February 1984, Page 36
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in