Noon Forecast

Press, 21 April 1979, Page 60

Noon Forecast

Situation: A depression over the Tasman Sea is moving south and its associated front is approaching western New Zealand: an anticyclone south of the Chathams is moving east. Forecast: Canterbury: Northerlies fresh and gusty in exposed places, rain in the western ranges and a few showers spreading elsewhere during the day; mild. Marlborough. Nelson: Fresh

I northerlies; rain this | morning in Nelson easing to isolated showers this afternoon; fair at first in Marlborough but occasional showers from about midday; mild. I Buller, Westland: Mild • northerlies strong in ex- | posed places; rain this morning easing to scat- | tered showers this afternoon. ’Outlook: Mainly fine in I Canterbury, scattered : showers on the West 1 Coast, fair elsewhere.

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

Observations taken at th«| Meteorological Office. Christ- ■ church Airport, yesterday. i Barometer: 6 p.m. 11p.m. Millibars - - 1023.5 1022.4 Temperatures: deg.j Maximum 'to 6 p.m.) 141 Rainfall: mm.* 9 am. to 11 p.m. 0 To date this month 71 To date this xear .. 2381 To date last year .. 194! Average to date 188 j Average tor April 53! Wettest April i!968» 188, Driest April (1973) 11 Sunshine: hours, Vesterdax 4hr 24min To date this month 132 To date this year .. 709: To date last year .. 765 Average for April .. 142 j Humidity: Per cent at noon .. 78 * Per cent at 6 p.m. 85 j Temperatures and rainfall for) the 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday.' — Maximum 16deg. minimum. Ideg. grass — Ideg. rainfall trace.! SUN, MOON AND TIDES Sun—Today: Rises. 7.9 am.; I, sets. 5.49 p.m. Tomorrow:! Rises, 7.10 a.m.; sets. 5.48 pm Moon—Today: Rises 12.25 a.m.; sets. 2.44 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises. 1.34 a.m.; sets. 3.23 p.m. High tide at Lyttelton.—Today: ; 11.44 a.m. and —. Tomor- ; row: 12.10 aun. and 12.30! p.m Phases of Moon New moon: April 27. 1 a.m.

j First quarter: May 4, 4 p.m. Full moon: May 12, 2 p.m. i Last quarter: May 19, noun. NOON WEATHER Auckland: 18deg. cloudy E., 3 , knots. ‘Wellington: 13deg. cloudy. 13 knots. i Christchurch: 14deg. partly cloudy. N.E., 5 knots. Dunedin: 14deeg. cloudy, N.E.. 15 knots. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum temiperatures in the main cities o£ the world in the last 24 hours ■were: i .Amsterdam 10. 14; Athens. 13. 121; Bangkok. 30. 38; Beirut, 15. 26; Belgrade, i. 12: Berlin. 3, 12: Bogota 10 18; Brussels. 0. 12: i Buenos Aires. 14. 26: Cairo. 15. 29; Caracas. 21. 31: Chicago. 4. 113; Copenhagen. 2.7; Dublin. 7. 113; Edinburgh. 9. 14: Frankfurt. 12, 9: Geneva 3, 11; Helsinki;—4. 4: Hong Kong. 21 27; Honolulu, j 20. 29; Jerusalem. 12. 20: JohanInesburg. 12. 22; Kiev, —6. 3: (Lima, 20 24: Lisbon. 11. 22; Lon I don 1. 14: Los Angeles. 9, 19: ’Madrid, 4 16: Manila. 24. 23' Mexico Citv. 10. 26: Miami, 22 26; Montreal. 2. 12: Moscow. —6 1; New Delhi 22.38: New York 7 17; Nicosia. 11. 25: Oslo. 2 10; Paris. 4. 10; Rome. 9. la San Francisco, 9. 13: San .Juan 24 J 0; Seoul. 6. 20: Singapore 26. 31; Stockholm. —3, 6; Tai iiei 21. 25: Teheran. 13 19; Te’ Aviv. 14. 22: Tokvo. 7. 14 ! Toronto. 3 13: Vancouver. 2 ‘ 10; Vienna. 1. 5.