METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18584, 19 December 1934, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

SUNRISE AND SUNSET STANDARD TIME Rises. Sots.

December 19 .. 4.20 a.m. 7.16 p.m. December 20 .. 4.20 a.m. 7,17 p.m.

PHASES OF THE MOON

TIDES AT GISBORNE WHARF STANDARD TIME High Water. Low Water.

BAROMETER READINGS

RAINFALL AT GISBORNE

THE WEATHER To-day’s North Island Report. Overcast conditions were reported at Wellington this morning, but blue skies prevailed elsewhere in the North Island. Light variable breezes were general. The barometer had commenced a falling movement. Temperatures at 9 o’clock were: Auckland! and Opotiki 73 degrees, Tauvanga. 74, East Cape 76. Gisborne 78. Napier 72. and Wellington 70. Moderate or smooth seas were reported everywhere. Last Night’s Forecast An anticyclone over New Zealand is moving slowly eastwards, while a deep depression is advancing from southeastern Australia on to the Tasman Sea. Winds, north-easterly to northerly prevailing, moderate at first but gradually freshening, later reaching gale force about and' south of Cook Strait. Seas rough about Cook and Foveaux Straits, rising later south of Cape EJgmont, elsewhere smooth to moderate. In the eastern Tasman Sea, moderate but. increasing north-east to north winds, and rising seas. Weather' fair, warm and sultry generally, hub some isolated local rains' likely, with thunder at places, conditions becoming unsettled to-rnor-row in the western and southern portions of the South Island, with rain setting in. Midday Forecast. General inference. —The anti-cyclone is gradually moving away eastwards off New Zealand. A rather deep depression covers the south-west Tasman Sea. Forecast—Light variable winds, but easterly prevailing, changing to freshening! northcrlies. Weather, fair, warm, and sultry. Seas moderate.

Now Moon, December 7,. 4.55 a.m. First Quarter, Decom. 13, 11.22 p.m. Full Moon, December 21, 8.23 a.m. LaRt Quarter, Decom. 29, 1.38 p.m.

a.in. p.m. a.m. p.m. December 19 .. . 3.31 4.00 10.05 10.19 December 20 .. . 4.24 4.54 10.58 11.10 December 21 . - , 5.16 5.49 11.51 0.00

At 8 a.m. yesterday .. .. 30.15in At 8 p.m. yesterday .. .. 30.13in At 8 a.m. to-day .. 30.09in

For 48 hours to 5) a.rn. O.OOin Total for month to date . 0.73in Average for December . 2.30in