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Press, 12 June 1984, Page 44

General forecast: A ridge lies across the north of the North Island, and a westerly airstream covers the rest of New Zealand. District forecasts: Canterbury: Gusty northwesterlies inland reaching the coast at times; showers about the Alps; fine elswewhere, mild afternoon. Marlborough: West or northwest winds fresh and gusty in exposed places. Fine, mild this afternoon. Nelson: Fresh south-wester-lies; showers about the

western ranges; otherwise fine. Buller, Westland: Mostly cloudy, cool, occasional showers; moderate west to south-west winds. Tomorrow: Mainly fine in Canterbury; little change elsewhere. Extended range forecast for the South Island for Tuesday to Friday. — Canterbury, Marlborough and Nelson; fine westerlies changing tomorrow to cold showery south-west-erlies; Thursday, fine, cold; Buller, Westland; cold, showery, becoming fine north of Haast.

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

Observations taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Baromoter: .... 6 p.m. 11p.m. Millibars .... 1010.9 1011.1 Temperature: deg. Maximum (to 6 p.m.) . . 19 Rainfall: mm. 9 a.m. to 11 p.m Nil To date this month. . . . Trace To date this year 314 To date last year 257 Average to date 304 Average for June 54 Wettest June (1960). ... 168 Driest June (1979) 5 Sunshine: hrs Yesterday 7 hr 00 min To date this month. ... 60 To date this year 988 To date last year 972 Average for June 120 Humidity: Per cent at noon 34 Per cent at 6 p.m 43 Temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday: Maximum 18 deg, minimum 9 deg. grass 3 deg, rainfall Nil SUN, MOON, AND TIDES Sun — Today: Rises, 7.59 a.m; Sets, 4.59 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 7.59 a.m.; Sets, 4.59 p.m. Moon — Today: Rises, 3.49 p.m.; Sets, 6.04 a.m. Tomorrow: Rises. 4.28 p.m.; Sets 7.18 a.m. High tide at Lyttelton — Today: 2.53 a.m. and 3.23 p.m. Tomorrow: 3.45 a.m. and 4.15 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 Full moon: June 14. Last quarter: June 21 New moon: June 29. First quarter: July 6. NOON WEATHER Auckland: 15deg., partly

cloudy, S.W., 11 knots. Wellington: 13deg., fine, N., 27 knots. Christchurch: 17deg., fine, N.W., 13 knots. Dunedin: 12deg., partly cloudy, calm. AIR POLLUTION Christchurch readings, 24 hours, to 8 a.m. yesterday: smoke, low; sulphur dioxide, low. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum temperatures in main Australian cities yesterday were: Adelaide: 2, 15; Brisbane: 15, 21; Canberra: —4, 13; Darwin: 21, 32; Hobart: 9, 14; Melbourne: 5, 14; Perth: 9, 21 (noon); Sydney: 9, 17. Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main cities of the world in the last 24 hours were: Amsterdam, 10, 17; Athens, 18. 30; Bahrain, 27, 36; Brussels, 12, 21; Bangkok, 28, 33; Barbados, 24, 30; Beirut, 20, 28; Belgrade, 12. 22; Berlin. 8. 17; Bogota, 7, 19; Brussels, 12, 21; Buenos Aires, 6. 12; Cairo, 20, 33; Chicago, 21, 28; Copenhagen, 10, 19; Denpasar, 25, 33; Dublin, 12, 18; Frankfurt, 6, 16; Geneva, 11, 24; Helsinki. 4, 15, Hong Kong, 28, 31; Honolulu, 22, 31; Islamabad, 29, 43; Jakarta, 23, 32; Jerusalem, 17, 29; Kuala Lumpur, 23, 32; Lima, 15, 21; Lisbon, 13, 22; London, 14, 25; Los Angeles, 17. 28; Madrid, 8, 25; Manila, 23, 34; Mexico City 13, 28; Montevideo, 8, 10; Montreal, 16, 29; Moscow, 6, 15; New Delhi, 30, 37; New York. 25, 35; Nicosia. 19, 33; Oslo, 7, 14; Paris, 12, 23; Peking. 24. 33; Rio de Janeiro, 16, 31; Rome, 11. 24; San Francisco, 11. 21; Santiago. 4. 15; Sao Paulo, 12, 26; Seoul, 15. 25; Singapore, 25, 30; Stockholm. 7, 14; Taipei, 23, 33; Te! Aviv, 18. 28; Tokyo, 19, 24; Toronto, 18. 31; Vancouver, 12, 19; Vienna, 13, 16; Warsaw, 11. 17.