METEOROLOGICAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL

SUNRISE AND SUNSET STANDARD TIME Rises. Sets.

TIDES AT GISBORNE WHAKF High Water. Low Water.

Add 80 minutes lor summer time. PHASES OF THE MOON

BAROMETER READINGS

RAINFALL AT GISBORNE

TEMPERATURES

THE WEATHER Last Night's Forecast General Situation: The anticyclone which covers New Zealand is centred to the east. A depression is located over the western Tasman, but il appears to be losing intensity. Forecast: Winds light to moderate but freshening north-east to northwest. A south-westerly change If possible to-morrow in the southern part of the South Island. Seas: In New Zealand waters, slight to moderate but later rising somewhat in Cook Strait. Eastern Tasman: Light to moderate but freshening north-east to north-west winds, changing to southerlies later in the southern portion: seas, slight lo moderate but rising in western areas. Weather: Fair to fine generally at first, with rising temperatures, scattered rains developing to-morrow in western and .southern portions of the South Island. To-day's North Island Report Blue skies were reported this morning at GiSborne and Napier, but overcast conditions prevailed elsewhere in the North Island. Light southerly hree7.es were blowing at Fast Cape and Tight to moderate north-easterlies elsewhere. The barometer had continued the rising movement. Temperatures at i) o'clock were: Auckland 04 degrees, Tauranga (if) Opotiki 00, East Cape 02, Gisborne and Wellington 111), and Napier <>:t. Rough seas wore reported at Tiriliri: elsewhere moderate or smooth. Midday Forecast General Situation: There has been little change in conditions in New Zealand, but pressure has risen over Tasmania and the depression over the Tasman Sea has lost energy. Forecast: Slight to moderate and variable winds with north-westerly oredominating. Weather: Fair and mild. Sea: Slight.

March 14 .. •">.••(> a.m. u.15 p.m. .March 15 . . 5.47 a.m. 0.14 p.m. .March 16 . . 5.49 a.m. 6.12 p.m. March 17 . . 5.50 a.m. >;.I I p.m. .March J8 . . 5.51 a.m. 15.0 p.m. March 1!) . . 5.52 a.m. 0.8 p.m. March L'O . . 5.52 a.m. 0.0 p.m. March 21 . . 5.53 a.m. 0.4 p.m. March 2l- . . 5.54 a.m. 0.:s p.m. March 21! . . 5.55 a.m. 0.1 p.m. March 24 . . 5.50 a.m. n..>9 p.m. .March 'J.'. . . 5.57 a.m. J.58 p.m. March 20 .. 5.58 a.m. 5.art p.m. March 27 . . r,.W a.m. :>.r>4 p.m. March 2S . . 0,0 a.m. n.OS p.m. March 20 . . 6.1 a.m. 5.51 p.m.

a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. March 14 .. o.io o.m o.:tn n.vj .March 15 . . 0.55 1.1 '» 7.23 ''■•'" March Hi .. 1.41 1.58 8 12 S.24 March 17 .. 2.20 2.10 8...-.0 !l.05 March 18 .. 3.00 3.2ii o.iio !>.4" March 10 . . 3.4.0 11.57 10.14 it..'.. March 20 . . 4.22 4.45 I0...8 U.I-. March °1 .. 5.1 i 5.40 11.45 o.oo March °2 8.04 (U3 0.0!) 0.31 March 23 .. 7.05 7.20 0.50 1.18 March 24 .. 7.57 8.10 1.44 J.OO March 25 . . 8.4.9 9.08 2.25 March 20 . . 0.'i5 9.57 3.14 .... » March 27 .. 10.21 10.42 4.02 4,21 March 28 .. U.08 11.31 4.49 5.14 March 29 .. 11.55 0.00 5.40 0.00

Pill] Mood, March (>, 5« :io a.i IjUS Now !<'tr; l Quarter, ' Moon, it Quarter, March March March 13, -1, 28, 9, 1. 11. 07 1.0 AS) p.]

U 8 • U S i U 8 a.m. un. a.in yesterday .. yesterday . . . to-day . . ■ IHUuin . . :S0.33in . . :!0.37in

For 24 ! aoui*s to it a.m. o.oow Total fo r month to ilate 0.79in A veraee lor Mar< ah (CO years) 4.31in

Maximum yesterday •• (>4.7deg. Minimum U»st night ■• 56.8dejf, Minimum on the grass .. 28.0deg.