METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19127, 23 September 1936, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

SUNRISE AND SUNSET

TIDES AT GISBORNE WHARF High Water. Low Water s.m p.m. a.m. p.m.

BAROMETER READINGS At S a.m. yesterday . . • • 30.32 in At S tj.m. yesterday .. .. OO.t’Sin At S a.m. to-day .. . • 30.30 in RAINFALL AT GISBORNE For 24 hours to 0 a.m. • • O.OOin Total tor month to date .. O.U4in Average for September .. 3.00 in THE WEATHER Midday Forecast. General inference —An intense anticyclone is still located east ol the Dominion, but u depression is centred between Norfolk Island and (tape Maria van Dieinan and moving southwards. A fresh depression has reached southeastern Australia. Forecast.—Moderate to strong northeasterly winds, reaching gale loive in parts of the north-east. Weather, clouding over, with rain in northern areas and extending southwards. Tempera I ures, mild. Seas, slight to moderate, but rising. To-day's North Island Ecport Blue skies were reported this morning at Wellington, Napier, and in the Bay of Plenty, but overcast conditions prevailed elsewhere in the North Island. Bight to fresh northerly breezes were general. The barometer showed little movement. Temperatures at 9 o clock were: Auckland 60 degrees, Tauranga and Wellington 59, and Gisborne 57, Fast Cape and Napier _ 54. Rough seas were reported at hnliri; elsewhere moderate or smooth. Last Night’s Forecast An anticyclone lying oust of New Zealand and centred ‘ beyond the Chatham Islands has intensified considerably. A shallow depression covers the north-east portion of the Tasman Sea, while pressure is. rather high over Fastorn Air I ralia and across the- son I hern Tasman. Winds: Light to moderate north-easterly to northerly from Nelson and Marl borough northwards, freshening somewhat over the North Island: elsewhere, light, and variable, hut with southerlies prevailing at first. Seas (Now Zealand waters): Rather rough north of Fast Cape and in parts of the Cook Strait area.; otherwise slight to moderate. Fasten! Tasman .Sen: Moderate to Ivesli north-easterly winds in the northern portion: light to moderate easterlies or southerlies in the southern portion; seas moderate. Weather: For the most part fair and mild, bid* cloudy or misty at times and some sealtered rains probable, move especially in 1 lie North Island, and the northern and eastern portions of the South Island.

Rluns. Sntu, SJoptflmhor September 24 . . r>."7 n.m. 5,'tfl .i.m. 5.40 p.m . r i.. r )l) p.m September September Jejitcprilwr September 26 '. '. 28 '. '. 20 5.R4 n.m. fi.i'.'j a.m. ;-..:: 1 a.m. ni'Jf) n.m. 5,51 p.m fi.r.2 p.n fi.M p.m 5.54 p.m September "0 5.28' n.m. 5f. r »5 p.n

Sept. 24 .. 11.2!1 11.4 fl 4.57 5.30 Sept. 2;'i . . 0.00 0.05 . r .."S 0.21 Sept! 20 . . O.no O.SO 0.21 7.0'8 Sept. 27 .. 1.1-1 >■'-• '''- 1 " v r ' ; : Sent, 28 .. '-■.< 10 ::.'.-';". R.01 8.40 Sopl. 20 .. 2.48 H.in B.f.O 0.40 s t . »t :;n .. r..40 •i.ii o.r.o io.no

PHASES OF THE MOON Pull Moon, Sept. 2, n.P7 n.m. J si Quarter, Sept. S, 2.4-1 p.m. New Moon, Sept. Ifi, 5.11 a.rn. First Quarter, Sept. 24 0.42 a.m.