METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18586, 21 December 1934, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

SUNRISE AND SUNSET STANDARD TIME Rises. Sots,

PHASES OF TUB MOON

TIDES AT GISBORNE WHARF

STANDARD TIME High Water. Low Water, a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m.

BAROMETER READINGS

At S a.m. yesterday .. .. SO.Oiin At S p.m. yesterday .. • • 29.98 m At 8 a.m. to-day • • • • SO.OSIn RAINFALL AT GISBORNE

For 24: hours to 9 a.m. .. O.OOin Total for month to date .. 0.73 in Average for December .. 2.30 in

THE WEATHER

To-day’s North Island Report. Overcast conditions were reported in the Bay of Plenty this morning, but blue skies prevailed elsewhere in the North Island. Moderate to .fresh northerly breezes Were general. The barometer had commenced a falling movement. Temperature's at 9 o’clock were: Auckland and Napier.7o degrees, Taurar.ga, Opotiki, and Gisborne 74, East Cape 72, and Wellington 70. Rough seas were reported at Wellington; elsewhere moderate or smooth. Last Night’s Forecast A depression is approaching from the Tasman «Sea, but it lias apparently been losing intensity, while pressure has risen considerably over Kiistern .Anstralia. Winds moderate to strong northerly to north-Westerly, reaching pile force at places about and south of. Cook Strait, backing to southerly shortly in the far south ami southerlies becoming era! after from 24 to 36 hours. Seas rough about Cook and Fovemix Straits, and rising south of Cape Egm.nt, elsewhere moderate. In the Eastern Tasman Sea moderate to strong north to west winds, backing later to south-westerly, sens moderate to rather rpugh. Went hoi unsettled in the western and southern portions of the South Island, with rain elsewhere; stiil for the most part fair to cloudy, but with scattered rains probable. Temperatures warm, but becoming! cooler to-morrow. Midday Forecast.

General inference.—-A slight depression was crossing the Dominion last night, but apparently there is no great rise of pressure behind it. Forecast.—Moderate northerly winds, backing later to southerly. Weather mainly fair to cloudy and sultry, but some scattered rains and thunder probable. Seas moderate.

December 21 4.20 a.m. 7.17 p.m December 22 4.21 ft.in. 7.17 p.m December 23 4.21 a.m. 7.18 p.m December 24 4.22 a.m. 7.18 p.m December 25 4.22 a.m. 7.19 3>. in December 26 4.23 a.m. 7.19 p.m

New Moon, December 7, 4.55 a. in. First Quarter, Decern. 13, 11.22 p.m. Full Moon, December 2i, 3 a. in. Last Quarter, Decern. 29, 1.38 p.m.

December 2 l . , . 5.11) 5.49 11.51 0.00 December 22 . . fi.ll 0.45 0,02 0.44 December 23 , 7.00 7.40 0.53 j.bo December 24 .. . 7.57 8.30 1.4 t 2.15