METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19131, 28 September 1936, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

SUNRISE AND SUNSET E!ae». Sat*. STANDARD TIME

TIDES AT GISBORNE WHARF Higk Water. Low Water ».m pm a.m. p.m. STANDARD' TIME

PHASES OF THE MOON Fill) Moon, Oolobov I, R.HI n.m. t,nsi Quarter, October 7. 11.*.S p.m. New Moon, October 1">, 0.50 p.m. Pir-:( dinner. October 24, o.'jt n.m. Full Moon, October 30, 5.28 p.m. BAROMETER READINGS At. R n.m. yesterday ■■ ■- ~ 3 --;!s' ri At S |J.ni. yesterday .. • • 29. i i-jn At S n.m. to-day .. •• 20.201 n RAINFALL AT GISBORNE For 'IS hours to !* a.m. .. 0.21 in Total for month to date .. I.2oiti Average for September .. 3.00 in

THE WEATHER To-day's North Island Report Blue skies were reported throughout the North Island this morning. Light, to moderate sotith-westerlv breezes were

general. The barometer had fallen to a low level. Temperatures at 9. o'clockwere : Auckland 56 degrees. Tauranga SO, Opotiki 52, East Cape and.- Gisborno 49. Napier 57. and Wellington 51-. Rough seas were reported at Opotiki; elsewhere moderate or smooth. Last Night's Forecast Another and rather intense one of a series of westerly depressions is crossing the Dominion to-day, while a oyclone is located west of Norfolk Island. An intense anticyclone covers Australia and extends on to the western Tasman Sea. Winds: Moderate to strong north-west-rrly to westerly, reaching gale force m places and backing to southerly to-night in the far south and southc-rifes shortly becoming general. Seas (New Zealand waters): Rough on the West Coast and in the Cook and Foveaux Straits areas; elsewhere moderate, but, -later, rising. Eastern Tasman Sea: Westerly winds, backing soon to southerlies, strong to gale- Force, with rough to high seas. Weather: Cold, unsettled and squally, with rain at times, in most districts; some heavy falls in those with a westerly aspect and in the far north : thunder and bail probable in places, and snow on the ranges.

I Midday Forecast. ! General inference.—A depression is now located east of Cook. Strait and is moving south-eastwards, while an anticyclone is advancing across the Tasman '. Sea. , | Forecast.—Moderate to strong southerly to south-westerly winds, reaching gale force at times in exposed positions. Weather cold and showery, but improving gradually to-morrow. Seas rough.

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