METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18466, 3 August 1934, Page 5

METEOROLOGICAL

SUNRISE AND SUNSET Kiscs. Sets.

August 3 . . 0.53 a,m. 5.1 pan. August 4 . . a.in. 5.g p.m. August 5 . . 0.51 a.in. 5.3 p.m. August (1 . . 0.50 a.in. 5.4 p.m. August 7 . . 0.40 a.m. 5.5 p.m. August 8 . . *''.47 ii.iii. 5.11 p.m. August !* . . (1.4(1 a.m. 5.(1 p.m. August I*l . . *1.45 ii.iii. 5.7 p.m. i August It . . (1.44 ii.iii. 5.8 p.m. |August 12 .. 6.4,3 u.ui. 5.0 p.m.

PHASES OF THE MOON j Last Quarter August 2, 5.57 p.m. New Moon August 30, 8.1(1 p.m. First Quarter August 18. 4.011 p.m. Full Noon August 25, 7.07 ii.iii. j TIDES AT GISBORNE WHARF

I BAROMETER READINGS lAt S ri.m. yesterday .. .. 30.r>Sin At S p.m. yesterday .. .. 30.!)3in !At 8 a.in. to-day .. .. 30.49 in RAINFALL AT GISBORNE ! For 24 lionrs to !) a.m. .. O.OOin I Total for month to date .. 0.09 in j A verage for August .. .. 4.32 in THE WEATHER , To-day’s North Island Report. I Blue skies were reported ut Napier I this morning, but overcast conditions j prevailed elsewhere in the North Island. ; Moderate to fresh northerly breezes were general. The barometer had commenced a falling movement. Temperatures at 9. o’clock were: Auckland and Tauranga 55 degrees. Opotiki 50, East tape and Napier 53. Gisborne 48, and Wellington 51. Rough seas were reported at Tauranga. and Tiritiri; elsewhere moderate or smooth. Last Night’s Forecast The intense anticyclone over New Zealand is now moving eastwards, its ventre to-day being in the vicinity of the Chatham Islands. The depression on tlie western Tasman lias been gradually deepening. Winds, light to moderate, hut freshening north-easterly to northerly. Kras, smooth to moderate. In the eastern Tasman, increasing northerly winds, and seas becoming rough. Weather fair to fine in most districts, rain developing shortly in the far north and south, and conditions becoming unsettled also in the western parts from Taranaki southwards. Mild temperatures. Midday Forecast. General inference. —The recent anticyclone is now passing eastward, and a depression is approaching across the Tasman Sea.

Forecast.—Moderate to strong and increasing northerly winds. Weather becoming dull and misty, with vain later. Mild temperatures. Seas moderate, but rising. ... • , '

. Higli Watur. Low Water. a.in. ]).m. a.in. 11.111. August r, .. i 1.57 0.00 5.50 0.25 August 4 .. 0.20 o.r.o 0.4 0 7.20 'August r> .. 1.18 3.40 7.20 ff.U (August (> .. 2.00 S.25 K.50 i August 7 .. 2.00 0.10 0. in 0.44 ; August « .. 2.22 0..M 0.52 10.25 August. u .. 4. i r, 4.:u 10.24 11.00 August 10 . . 4.50 5.10 1 1.1S 1 1.50 August 11 .. 5.45 0.07 0.00 0.02