METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18588, 24 December 1934, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

SUNRISE AND SUNSET STANDARD TIME

PHASES OF THE MOON

TIDES AT GISBORNE WHARF

BAROMETER READINGS At 8 fi.ni, yesterday ... •• 30-Uin At 8 p.m. yesterday .. •• At 8 n.m. to-day ~ • • RAINFALL AT GISBOENE

For 48 hours to 9 a.m. .. 1.97|n Total for month to date .. 2.70 in Average for December • • 2.30 in

THE WEATHER

To-day’s North Island Report,

Overcast conditions were, reported this morning between Napier and Taurangia, but blue skies prevailed elsewhere in the North Island. Light to moderate easterly breezes were general. The barometei had commenced a rising movement. Temperatures' at 9 o’clock were : Auckland 74 degrees, Tauranga and 'Gisborne 72, Opotiki and Napier 75, East Cape 68, and Wellington 77. Bough seas were reported at Tauranga and Opotiki; elsewhere moderate or smooth. Last Night’s Forecast

An anticyclone is crossing New Zealand, its centre being located to the east. A rather deep depression covers tiie western Tasman Sea. Winds light and variable at first, but soon tending northerly and freshening. Seas smooth to moderate, but later rising about Cook and Foveaux Straits. In the eastern Tasman Sea increasing north-cast to north winds, and rising seas. Weather still mainly fine and warm to hot, but some showers likelv ill the far north and south, and conditions becoming unsettled to-morrow in the western districts of the South Island, Midday Forecast

General inference.—An anticyclone is located east of New Zealand, while a depression covers the western Tasman Sea. Forecast. —Light to moderate southeasterly winds, gradually tending northeast. 'Weather mainly fair to fine, and warm to hot, but isolated rains and thunder probable. Seas smooth to moderate.

Rises. Sets. Decomber 24 . . 4.22 n.m. 7.18 p.m, December 25 4.22 a.m. 7.19 p.mDecember 26 .. 4.23 a.m. 7.19 p.m. December 27 .. 4.24 a.m. 7.19 p.m. December 28 . . 4.24 a.m. 7.20 p.m. December 29 .. 4.26 a.m. 7,20 p.m. December no . . 4.25 a.m. 7.20 p.m. December 91 4.26 a.m. 7.21 p.m.

Hew Moon, December 7, 4.55 fl.m. First Quarter, Decern. 13, 11.32 p.m. Fijll Moon, December 21, 8.23 a.m. Last Quarter, Decern. 29, 1.38 p.m.

.STANDARD TIME High water. Low Water, a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. December 24 . . 7.57 8.30 1.41 2.16 December 25 . . 8.44 9.14 2.26 2.56 December 26 , . 9.25 9.54 3.09 3.35 December 27 . . 10.06 10.32 3.47 4.13 December 28 . . 10.45 11.10 4.26 4.50 December 29 . . 11.26 11.50 5.08 5.2 Q December 30 . . 0.00 0.08 5.54 6.10 December 81 . . 0.33 0,63 6.41 6.55