METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

SUNRISE AND SUNSET STANDARD TIME

TIDES AT GISBORNE WHARF STANDARD TIME

PHASES OF THE MOON

BAROMETER READINGS At s a.m. yesterday .. .. 2f1.70in

At 8 p.m. yesterday .. • • 29.821 n At s a.m. to-day • • ■ • 2!).7fiin RAINFALL AT GISBORNE

For 24 bour.s to il a.m. .. O.OOin Total for month to ditto . . 0.42 in Average for February .. :!.47in

THE WEATHER To-day's North. Island Report Blue skies between Tauranga and Napier but overcast conditions elsewhere were reported this morning. Light westerly winds prevailed. The barometer showed a slight upward movement. Temperatures tit ( J a.m. were: Auckland 65 degrees, Tauranga 62, Opotiki 64. East, Cape 64, Gisborne 63. Napier 67 and Wellington 59. Seas were smooth to moderate and visibility moderate to excellent. Last Night's Forecast Yesterday's depression is moving away eastward, but a fresh secondary depression is forming west of the South Island to-day and should cross it to night. An intense anticyclone covers south-eastern Australia. Winds: West to south-west at first and in places veering temporarily to north-west, but becoming more generally southerly to-morrow; force moderate to strong and reaching gale force in some exposed positions. Seas (New Zealand waters) : Rough north of Farewell Spit and considerable southerly swell.; thence southwards; elsewhere moderate at first but. later, rising south of East Cape, liastern Tasman Sea : Moderate to strong south-westerly to southerly winds and rather rough to rough seas. Weather: Still changeable and rather unsettled, with rain tit times in most districts, but an improvement commencing to-morrow. Temperatures cool. Midday Forecast.

General inference. —A secondary depression which was developing to the westward yesterday deepened considerably last night and is now crossing the South island. Pressure is high over south-eastern Australia, but conditions are disturbed in the tropics to the northward.

Forecast.—Moderate lo strong northwesterly winds, hacking later lo southwest. \Veather, clouding over and sonn scattered iains probable. Temperatures, cooler to-rhorrow. Sens, slighl lo inoder ate.

Rises. Sets. February J'J . . 5.1-1 a.lie 15.57 u.m February Kt 5.15 a.m. (5.55 p.m February 14 5.16 a.m. 6.54 l>.m February 15 5.17 a.m. 6.53 juii February 1<> 5.18 a.m. 6.51 l>.m February 17 5.10 a.m. 0.50 p.rn February 38 5.21 a.m. 6.49 p. in

High Water. Low Water. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. February 12 . r,.4n o.os O.OO 0.08 •Vbrnnry 1 '.'• . 0.40 7.H) 0.25 i.oa PVforunry 14 7.40 S. 1 0 0.05 2. 1 (i i. 5 •.' 2.49 tfVb mary T 5 February J <i . . '. " 0.30 0.50 H.OH ::.i(i February 17 . . . 10.25 10.47 4.0:1 4.3C IS . . 11.15 11.40 4.58 5.23

Last Quarter, February 4, 11.34 p.m. New .Moon, February 11, 7.0-1 ]>.io. First Quarter, February IK. •'•■'■1» p.m. Full Moon, February '.to, 7.13 p.m.