METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18756, 12 July 1935, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

PHASES OF THE MOON

TIDES AT GISBORNE WHARF

j BAROMETER READINGS At 8 n.m. yesterday .. ■ • 30.2(1in At 8 p.m. yesterday .. .. 29.98 in At 8 n.m. to-day .. .. 29.99 in RAINFALL AT GISBORNE For 24 hours to 9 n.m. . . O.OCin Total for month to date 3.26 in Average for July .. .. fi.Ofiin

THE WEATHER

To-day’s ,Nortli. Island Report. Blue skies prevailed uortli of Gisborn tliis morning, but overcast conditionwore reported further south in the North Island. Moderate to fresh south erly breezes were general. The bam meter had fallen sharply since vestor day. Temperatures at 9 o’clock were: Auckland 45 degrees, Tamanga 49. Opotiki and Fast Cape 50, Gisborne and Napier 47, and Wellington 44. Rough seas were reported at Cape Pal User, Castlepoint. and Hast Cape: elsewhere" moderate or s'lfiooth. Last Night’s Forecast An anticyclone over (lie Tasman Sea and New Zealand has been losing its intensity. Pressure is still low to the north,, while a slight depression has been passing in the south to-day. Winds, strong south-easterly north of Kawhia and East Cape, and strong westerly to south-westerly in the far south; elsewhere moderate and variable, but, .southerly soon prevailing and freshening somewhat up the East Coast. \ Seas, rather rough to rough north of East. Cape and about Eoveniix Strait*; elsewhere smooth to moderate. In the eastern Tasman Sea south-easterly to southerly winds, moderate mainly with moderate seas but strong with rather rough seas in the northern portion. Weather still for the most part fail- to line, hut showers likely in tho far north and south, and at scattered places, also on (lie ,East Coast. Temperatures cold. Yesterday’s Midday Forecast. General inference. —An anticyclone still covers the nominion, while an extensive depression to the north has been moving gradually eastwards. A slight depression also is at. present crossing the South Island. Forecast.—Moderate, variable winds, southerly prevailing, and freshening at times. 'Weather, mainly fair to cloudy, and cold ; some scattered showers in the hill country, Seas, moderate to rather rough.

.(nlv 115 7.8 a.ni. 4.44 p.m July i:i 7.8 a.in. 4.45 P.m July 14 7.7 n. in. 4.40 I'-m July i r> 7.7 a.in. 4.40 p.m July 10 7.7 a.m. 4.47 p.m July 17 7.0 a. in. 4.48 p.m July 18 7.0 a.m. 4.48 p.m July 10 1 . . 7.f> a.m. 4.411 p.m July ‘JO 7.-1 a.m. 4.50 p.m July 2 l 7.1 a.m. 4.51 p.m Inly 22 7.* a.m. 4.5b p.iri July 2J» 4: 7.1* a. in.** -4.50 p.m July 24 7.2 a.m. 4.50 p.m

Full Moon July 1, 7.14 ft.in. First Quarter .Inly !), 11.58 a.in. Full Jloon •Inly 16, 4.JO p.m. Last Quarter July 21), 7.12 n.m*. New Moon July 30, 0.02 p.m.

High Water. Low Water. a.ni. p.iu. a.m. p.iu July 12 1.25 1.40 7.20 8.K July is 2.08 2.02 8.15 8.5i July 14 . . 2.55 0.18 9.-00 9.4; July 15 . . 2.40 4.08 9.51 lp.L July 10 4 .rr, 5.05 10.47 1 1.41 July 17 .. 5.02 0.00 1 1.45 O.OC July If! 0.00 7.08 0.25 0.4; July 19 7.05 8.00 1.21 1.4'. July 20 8.05 0.08 2.20 2.41 July 2 1 9.00 10.02 2.20 2.30 ■1 ul V 22 ... 10.25' 10.50 4.12 4.3 f