Weather

Press, 16 August 1988, Page 40

Weather

Today’s New Zealand forecast: Mostly fine over the North Island; rain on the West Coast; elsewhere in the South Island mainly dry.

Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson: Fine. Buller: Cloudy, cool occasional showers. Westland: Overcast, occasional rain. Tomorrow: South-westerlies, showers in the east; rain clearing in the west.

Extended range forecast to Saturday. South Island: Fine, then cold southerlies, rain in the east; unsettled, rain, colder in the north and west. North Island: Unsettled, rain in northern, central and western districts; mostly fine in the east; unsettled, rain in the south.

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS Observations taken at the Meteorological Office, Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Sunshine: hrs Rainfall: mm. Temperature: deg Yesterday 9 hr 54 min 9 a.m. to 11 p.m Nil Maximum (to 6 pm) 15 To date this month .. . 81 To date this month .. . 17 Barometer. 6pm Hom To date this year ... . 1356 To date this year 215 Millibars... 10169 10169 To date last year .... 1310 To date last year 422 Temperatures and rainfail Average for August ... 145 Average to date 427 for the 24 hours to 9 a m Humidity: Average for August ... 56 yesterday: Maximum 14 deg Per cent at noon .... 60 Wettest August (1975) . . 149 minimum —3 deg grass —6 Per cent at 6 p.m. ... 75 Driest August (1948). . . 5 deg, rainfall nil.

Sun—Rises, 7.22 a.m.; sets 5.45 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 7.21 a.m.; sets, 5.46 p.m. Moon Rises, 8.43 a.m.; sets, 9.22 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises, 9 a.m.; sets, 10.25 p m Phases First quarter: August 21. Full moon: August 27. Last quarter: September 3 Full moonSeptember 11.

High tide at Lyttelton—7.o2 a.m. and 7.23 p.m. Tomorrow: 7.51 a.m. and 8 09 p 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 12deg., recent showers, S.W., 13 knots. Wellington 12 fine E 1. Christchurch 13, fine, calm. Dunedin 11, cloudy, W., 13. ’ '

World weather: Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main Australian cities yesterday were: Adelaide, 13, 26; Brisbane, 11, 21; Canberra, —2 16- Darwin 24 33Hobart, 7, 15; Melbourne, 10, 17; Perth, 12, 15; Sydney, 9, 20. ’ ' Main cities of the world: Amsterdam, 16, 25; Athens, 24, 38; Bahrain, 30 37- Banokok 25, 33; Barbados, 28, 30; Beirut, 24, 33; Belgrade, 20, 36; Berlin, 12, 25; Bermuda 28 33 : Bogota, 3, 18; Brussels, 12, 22; Buenos Aires, 12, 14; Cairo, 23, 37; Caracas ’lB ’ 26Copenhagen, 12, 17; Dublin, 14, 20; Frankfurt, 11. 27; Geneva, 18, 30; Harare 8’ 24Havana, 23, 31; Helsinki, 12, 19; Hong Kong, 25, 26; Honolulu, 24, 32; Islamabad ’22 32Istanbul, 22, 32; Jerusalem, 20, 31; Johannesburg, 6, 21; Kuala Lumpur, 23, 32; Lima’ 13’ 16; Lisbon, 17, 27; London, 15, 23; Madrid, 17, 35; Manila, 26, 33; Mecca 30 43- Mexico City, 13, 22; Montevideo, 15, 18; Montreal, 22, 33; Moscow, 17, 24- New Delhi 25 31New York, 26, 35; Nicosia, 25, 38; Oslo, 11, 19; Paris, 18, 29; Peking, 20, 25 ; Rio de Janeiro, 15. 25; Rome, 18, 34; San Francisco, 14, 19; San Juan, 24, 31- Santiago 4 12Seoul, 26, 34; Singapore, 24, 27; Stockholm, 18, 20; Taipei, 26, 33; Tel Aviv 24 31-Tokvn 26, 31; Toronto, 18, 29; Vancouver, 15, 19; Warsaw, 17, 26. • • • y .