METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19125, 21 September 1936, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

SUNRISE AN?> SUNSET Ktaaa. Set*.

TIDES AT GISBORNE WHARF EUgk Water. Low Water a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m.

PHASES OF THE MOON ' Full Moon. Sept. 2, o.Q7''*2n. Last Quarter, Sept. S, 2.44 p.m. X New Moon, Sept. 16, 5.11 &.m. First Quarter, Sept. 24 9.42 a.m. BAROMETER READINGS" .At S a.m. yesterday .. • -• 30.251 n _ . At S p.m. yesterday .. .. 30.2 Din. | At 8 a.m. to-day .. .. 30.26 in RAINFALL AT GISBORNEFor 4S hours to 9 a.m. -. .O.dOln i Total for month to date .. o.fl4in-~" Average for September .. 3.00 in , THE WEATHER ! To-day’s North Island Report Blue skips were reported this morning at Gisborne and Napier, but overcast ; conditions, prevailed elsewhere in. the North Island, with light rain fairly-g*ie*y*---eral.- Light- to flresh breezes were general. The -baroirretertTf* had risen steadily during the week-end.' Temperatures at- 9 o’clock were: Audi-.—. laud 55 degrees, Tauranga 58, Ojratifci "T 56, East Cape 57, Gisborne 59. Napier- - 53, and Wellington ,-521 Rough seas-were reported at Cape Campbell: elsewhere moderate or smooth. t Last Night’s forecast ■/;;;* y An anticyclone is crossing the northern portion of the North Island but a westerly depression is advancing-across' the Tasman Sea. Winds, north to nonius. Z west moderate to strong generally ;uid_ reaching gale force, in many places south 1. - of Now Plymouth and Napier, backing-. 7 to-morrow to west- or in places --som-lr--» - west over the southern 'portion of the South Island. Seas, in New Zealand ,-~ waters, rough south of Cape EgiwiPf aud , !! in the Cook and Foveanx Straits wren* :c - elsewhere. slight to moderate. In the eastern Tasman Se 4. moderate to strong,, north-west prly winds, backing later to** west and south-west in the central andsouthern portions; seas, moderate TbA 2 rather rough and increasing. Weather, clouding over and rain developing in. western' afld smithetii portions of the’ - South Island and unsettled £ gradually extending over all districts• with a westerly aspect: fair to tine elsewhere. Temperatures mild. Midday Forecast. . A." AT 7 General inference.—An anticyclone - passed eastward yesterday and a shallow _ depression is crossing the Dominion to- - day. The pressure is, however, again 2 rising'over the Tasman Sea. Forecast. —Light- to moderate hut freshening north-westerly winds, backing to southerlies after about 24 , hoiU'S,..,.*. Weather mainly fair, but some scattered rains probable. Seas slight to moderate.

September 22 5.41 a.m. 5.47 p.m. September 25 5.29 n.m. S.4-S p.m. September 24 5.37 il.m. 5.49 p.m. Septe.rnben. 25 6.30 a.m. 5.50 p.m. September 20 5.24 a. III. 5.51 p.m. September 27 5.32 n.m. 5.52 p.m. September 2S . . 5.51 a.m. 5.53 p.m. September 22 .7.22 a.m. 5.54 p.m. September 30 5,28 a.m. 5.55 p.m.

Sept. 22 10.06 10.28 3.43 4.15 Sept. 2H . . 10.44 11.05 4.20 4.55 Sept. 24 11.22 11.46 4.57 5.36 Sept. 2-5 0.00 0.05 5.38 6.21 Sept. 26 0.30 0,50 0:2 4 7.08 Sept. 27 . . 1.14 1.35 7.10 7.55