Weather

Press, 21 July 1988, Page 44

Weather

Today’s New Zealand forecast: Showers at first in the north and west of the . North Island, then mainly fine; southerlies and scattered showers elsewhere. ■ Canterbury, Marlborough: Mostly fine; showers in the morning. Nelson, Buller, Westland: Fine and cool; light winds. Tomorrow: Northerlies; rain developing in the north and west. Extended range forecast to Monday. South Island: Southerlies and showers at first; northerlies developing, then showers again at the week-end; becoming fine on Monday. North Island: Showers in all districts; becoming fine on Monday. CHRISTCHURCH READINGS Observations taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Sunshine: hrs Rainfall: mm. Temperature: deg. Yesterday 4hr 48 min 9 a.m. to 11 p.m nil Maximum (to 6 p.m.) . . 10 To date this month ... 84 To date this month .. . 27 Barometer:. 6 p.m. 11p.m. To date this year .... 1232 To date this year 195 Millibars. . . 1011.5 1008.5 To date last year .... 1172 To date last year 404 Temperatures and rainfall Average for July 122 Average to date 378 for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. Humidity: Average for July 62 yesterday: Maximum 9 deg, Per cent at noon .... 88 Wettest July (1977) ... 181 minimum 0 deg, grass —2 Per cent at 6 p.m. ... 83 Driest July (1967) .... 5 deg, rainfall nil Sun — Rises, 7.53 a.m.; sets 5.18 p,m. Tomorrow: Rises, 7.52 a.m.; sets, 5.19 p m Moon — Rises, 10.54 a.m., sets, — . Tomorrow: Rises, 11.13 a.m.; sets, 12.35 am Phases — First quarter: tomorrow. Full moon: July 29. Last quarter: August 5. New moon: August High tide at Lyttelton — 9.56 a.m. and 10.12 p.m. Tomorrow: 10.41 a.m. and 10 58 n m (Lake Forsyth, less 60min; Akaroa, less 45min; Port Levy, less 30min; Ashburton and Rakaia, less 25min; Kaikoura, add 17min; Kaiapoi and Sumner, add 30min) Noon weather: Auckland 14 deg., cloudy, S.W., 12 knots. Wellington 10 cloudy NW 7 Christchurch 8, cloudy, N., 3. Dunedin 10, partly cloudy, N.W., 6. j. • . World weather. Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main Australian cities yesterday were: Adelaide, 10, 15; Brisbane, 10, 23; Canberra, 0,9; Darwin 2'> ?9Hobart, 5, 11; Melbourne, 9, 15; Perth, 7, 14; Sydney, 10, 19. ’ . ’ Main cities of the world: Amsterdam, 14, 19; Athens, 22, 34; Bahrain, 29 38- Banekok 24, 34; Barbados, 26, 30; Beijing, 24, 29; Beirut, 22, 30; Belgrade, 16, 28; Berlin 10 20Bermuda, 25, 29; Brussels, 9, 21; Budapest, 16, 25; Buenos Aires, 11, 15; Cairo’ 24’ 36 : Calgary, 9, 21; Caracas, 18, 29; Copenhagen, 13, 22; Dublin, 14, 18; Frankfurt’ 14’ 18 : Geneva, 15, 25; Harare, 6, 24; Havana, 23, 31; Helsinki, 20, 28; Hong Kong’ 25’ 28 : Honolulu, 24, 32; Istanbul, 22, 30; Jakarta, 25, 34; Jerusalem, 20, 30; Johannesburg 4 21 : Kiev, 17, 28; Kuala Lumpur, 23, 33; Lima, 12, 17; Lisbon, 16, 24; London 13 21- Los Angeles, 18, 28; Madrid, 18, 34; Manila, 24, 33; Mecca, 26, 42; Mexico City’ 14 23Montevideo, 11, 18; Montreal, 19, 31; Moscow, 19, 30; Nairobi, 12, 12; Nassau 24 30 : New Delhi, 27, 35; New York, 22, 36; Nicosia, 22, 40; Oslo, 15, 23; Paris, 13, 25- Rio de Janeiro, 11, 24; Rome, 15, 32; San Francisco, 17, 28; San Juan, 24, 31; Santiago 3 15Seoul, 24, 28; Singapore, 27, 32; Stockholm, 20, 25; Taipei, 28, 36; Tel Aviv, 24, 30- Tokyo' 20, 24; Toronto, 16, 29; Vancouver, 3, 24; Vienna, 16. 23: Warsaw. 12. 22. ’ ’