METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

SUNRISE AND SUNSET

TIDES AT GISBORNE WHARF

PHASES OF THE MOON

BAROMETER READINGS At S a.m. vostorday .. ■• 30.03 in At s p.m. vosterdny .. •• SO.or.in Ai s a.m. to-,lav .. ■• !M>.oßin RAINFALL AT GISBORNE For 2-1 hours to !) a.m. . . ,i - ,lo j'* Total for month to date •• 0.94 in Average Cor May •• •• B - 38in TEMPERATURES Maximum yesterday .. .. j'l.i'oogMinimum hjsl nic.hi . . • • "S.OdeK. Minimum on grass .. •■ .'"J.-"log.

THE WEATHER To-day's North Island Report Overcast conditions were reported throughout the North Island this morning. Light to moderate north-easterly breezes "were general. The barometer allowed little movement. Temperatures at 9 o'clock were: Auckland 58 degrees, Tauranga 55. Opotiki ami (lisbonie 50, Fast Tape 56. Napier ;"»1. ami Wellington kl. Hough seas were reported ul L'astlopoiiil and Tiritiri; elsewhere mod erate or smooth. Last Night's Forecast An anticyclone of slight intensity has been crossing the Dominion to-day. and a shallow depression, with a considerable north to south extension, is approaching from the Tasman Sea. The forecast is lor winds, uoith-easterly to northerly, light I oderate, but freshening and becoming strong in exposed posi is, backing .-non lo southerly in Ihe fat south I southerlies extending over the Dominion within the uoxl 21 to 3(i hours. Seas in New. Zealand waters will be slighl to moderate but rising somewhat north of Fast Cape. In the eastern Tasman Sea there will be northeasterly winds at first in Ihe northern portion, changing shortly to southerlies, and southerlies prevailing elsewhere., moderate to strong, with moderate io rather rough seas. The weather will heroine cloudy and overcast, with mist and fog in places and fairly general rain developing. Temperatures will be colder to-inol row . Midday Forecast (ieueral inference.- Pressure has risen east of Nov Zealand and a shallow depression is ai present centred wesl of tlie Auckland peninsula. Forecast.—" Moderate, but freshening easterly ivinds. Weather, dull and misty wiui ruin in most places. Seas, moderate, hul rising somewhat.

Rises. Sets. Miiy '-''? .. O.r.O a.m. 4.40 p.m. May US . . 0.57 a.m. <t,"9 p.m. Mnv L'O . . (i .',8 a in, 4.'M p.m. Mav ::d , . <; r,S a.m. •! " rt !>•'». May P.I . . <;.-,!! a.m. <l."7 p.m.

High Wiilcr. Low Water, ii.in. p.m. h.iii. I'- 111 - Mnv -'7 .. (i.f.O 7.10 0.57 1.00 Mnv 'JS . . 7. in H.00 H. I<) 1.4'J Jla'v L'il . . !:.:•:> S. 13 I'.-'-' '-'■'-'° M«v 30 .. o.oii (-:■->-. a.r.s 2.58 May 31 . . 9.4.0 J0.07 3.35 3.36

Last Quarter May 4, G.Ofl a.m. New .Moon May 1 I, 0.48 a.m. First Quarter May 17, 0.19 p.m. Trill Moon May 25, 7.08 p.m.