General forecast: A cold front lying from Fiordland towards Lord Howe Island is expected to cross the South Island early today and move across the North Island during the day. District forecasts: Canterbury: Showers about the Alps, otherwise fine, warm with moderate westerlies. Marlborough: Gusty northwesterlies, some rain this morning, fine this afternoon with fresh westerlies, warm. Nelson: Fresh northerlies and
rain this morning, fresh westerlies this afternoon, becoming fine apart from showers about the western ranges, mild. Buller: Fresh northerlies and rain easing to showers with fresh westerlies developing, mild. Westland: Rain, Isolated thunderstorms, cooler, modert ate westerlies prevailing. > Extended range forecast to Sunday.— Canterbury; Dry, north-westerlies fresh at times; Marlborough, Nel--5 son: Dry weekend but rai n on Sunday, north-westerlies • prevailing; Buller, Westland: north-westerlies, rain ‘ at the week-end.
CHRISTCHURCH READINGS
Observations taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Boromaton .... 6 p.m. 11p.m. Millibars 1001.8 1000.8 Temperature: deg. Maximum (to 6 p.m.) . . 22 Rainfall: mm. 9 a.m. to 11 p.m nil To date this month .... 53 To date this year 94 To date last year 78 Average to date 82 Average for February . . 45 Wettest February (1945). 144 Driest February (1973). . 5 Sunshine: hrs Yesterday 9 hr 42 min To date this month .... 144 To date this year 367 To date last year 444 Average for February .. 186 Humidity: Per cent at noon 78 Per cent at 6 p.m. .... 71 Temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday: Maximum 21 deg, minimum 9 deg, grass 5 deg, rainfall Tee SUN, MOON, AND TIDES Sun—Today: Rises, 6.56 a.m.; sets, 8.30 pan. Tomorrow: Rises, 6.57 ajn.; sets 8.29 p.m. Moon—Today: Rises, 6.08 p.m.; sets 1.31 a.m. Tomorrow: Rises 6.55 p.m.; sets 2.25 a.m. High tide at Lyttelton—Today: 2 ajn. and 2.19 p.m. To-: morrow: 2.43 a.m. and 3.01 p.m.(Lake Forsyth, subtract 60min; Akaroa, subtract 45min; Port Levy, subtract SOmin; Ashburton and Rakaia, subtract 25min; Kaikoura, add 17min; Kaiapoi and Sumner, add 30min.) Phases of Moon Full moon: February 25. Last quarter March 4. New moon: March 11. First quarter March 19.
NOON WEATHER Auckland: 20deg., cloudy, S.W., 10 knots. Wellington: 20deg., partly cloudy, N., 11 knots. Christchurch: 18 deg., cloudy, E., 13 knots. Dunedin: 18deg., partly cloudy, N.E., 13 knots. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main Australian cities yesterday were.— Adelaide: 17, 20; Brisbane: 20, 33; Canberra: 13, 18; Darwin: 23, 31 (noon); Hobart, 10, 15; Melbourne: 14, 21; Perth: 25, 36 (noon); Sydney: 18, 27. Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main cities of the world in the last 24 hours were.— Amsterdam, —7, 0; Athens, 10, 18; Bahrain, 16, 23; Bankok, 25, 32; Barbados, 22, 29; Beirut, 13, 19; Belgrade, 1,7; Berlin, —B, —4; Bogota, 10,19; Brussels, —7, 0; Buenos Aires, 14, 27; Cairo, 9, 20; Caracas, 17, 27; Chicago, —2, 2; Copenhagen, —6, —5; Denpasar, 24, 29; Dublin, 2,4; Frankfurt, — 6,1; Geneva, 0,3; Helsinki, — 8, —2; Hong Kong, 15, 20; Honolulu, 14, 27; Istanbul, 8, 13; Jakarta, 23, 30; Jerusalem, 7, 11; Johannesburg, 15, 25; Kuala Lumpur, 23, 33; Lima, 20, 27; Lisbon, 9, 13; London, —l, 1; Los Angeles, 15, 20; Madrid, 3, 10; Manila, 20, 33; Mexico City, 9, 23; Miami, 22, 26; Montevideo, 18, 23; Montreal, —l4, —5; Moscow, —l4, —7; Nassau, 17, 27; New Delhi, 9, 24; New York, —l, 2; Nicosia, 8, 18; Oslo, —4, —2; Paris, —3, 1; Peking, —5, 1; Rio De Janeiro, 21, 37; Rome, 10, 14; San Francisco, . 16, 17; Santiago, 13,29; Sao Paulo, 20, 26; Seoul, —l, 5; Singapore, 23, 32; Stockholm, —l2, —8; Taipei, 14,18; Tel Aviv, 10,18; Tokyo, 0,3; Toronto, —3, —1; Vancouver, —4, 1; Vienna, — 5,2; Warsaw, —B. —5.
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