METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19070, 18 July 1936, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

SUNRISE AND SUNSET -• >

.I u I - V * • • • TIDES AT GISBORNE WHARF.

PHASES OF THE MOON

BAROMETER READINGS At 8 Yt.nv. yesterday • 30.23 in ;; At S p.rn. yesterday .. .. 30.14 int At S u.m. td-day" .. .. 30.05in‘| RAINFALL AT GISBORNE j For 24 hours to 9 a.m. ~. 0.0Qm,; Total for month to date .. l.lSin; Average for July .. .. 6.06 in; THU WEATHER To-day’s North Island Report (' Overcast conditions were reported ; throughout ■ the North Island this,;morning, with rain north of Gisborne.; Moderate to strong north-westerly . winds were general. The barometerhad continued to fall steadily.- Tem-f-! peraturcs at 9 o’clock were: Auckland, j Opotikt and East Cape 53. Tauranga, • - Gisborne and Napier-58. and Wellington 54. Rough seas were reported at- - Cape Campbell. Wellington. Easts Cape. Opotiki and Tiritiri; elsewhere, moderate or smooth. ' *' Last Night’s Forecast. Pressure is high to the north and east,' but is falling over the Dominion with tho' approach of a rather intense and extern - sive depression across the Tasinan Sea. Winds: Northerly to north-westerly, moderate but .freshening generally, and, reaching gale force at places in and south of Cook Strait, backing shortly to, westerlies in the south. Seas (New Zealand waters) : Becoming rough south-of; Cape Egmont And about. Cook and. Foveaux. Straits; elsewhere slight- to • moderate, hut later rising north of Capo Egmont. Kastem Tasman Sea : Moderate! _ to strong north-west to west winds rising to gale force in the central and..southern. portions; seas rather rough to rough. Weather : ’.Mainly fair at. first in the eastern districts, hut otherwise cloudy Jo -- overcast : vain in districts "with a westerly aspect, and later becoming fairly general with heavy falls in places. Temperatures mild. Midday Forecast. General inference.—A vigorous -wester*, ly depression is crossing the poinhuon and is. being followed by a slight secondary. Pressure is' rising vapidly, again over eastern Australia. Forecast.—Moderate to -strong north, erly winds, reaching gale force in places,,: ' A change to southerlies is probable afters about 24 to 56 hours. Weather cloudy to overcast- and rain probable; with.’' some heavy falls. Temperatures mild.; Seas rather rough to rottgh.

’** Kiaea. Bet*. ■■ July 18 7.5 a.in. 4.49 p.m. Julc 10 7.5 a. m. 4.49 p:m. July -0 7.4 a.m.. 4.50 p.m.

HJgh Wflfer. Low Water a.m. p.m. s.m. p.m; July 18 411 4.40 10.2.0 11.14 July 10 08 5.35 11.26 0.00 .luly 20 0.06 6.35 0.00 ., 0.24

Full 'MOon, ■' July 5, 5.05 n.m. Last Quarter, .1 uly 32, 3.58 u.m* New >foou; July 10, 2.49 A.TO* First. Quarter, July 27, 0.06 a,ni.