The weather forecast today is for an often cloudy day with a chance of showers, becoming fine in the afternoon. Also southerlies developing.

It's a two-clothing layer day today with a high of 22 and an overnight low of 12 degrees. Humidity is 100 per cent.

High tide is a 8.15am and low tide is at 2.25pm. with a sea temperature of 19 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 5.27pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 3.30 and 6.30pm.

In NZ history on this day in 1893 Richard John Seddon became premier following the death of John Ballance.

Immortalised as ‘King Dick', Seddon dominated the New Zealand political landscape for the next 13 years. He remains this country's longest-serving prime minister.

In 1955 five Vampire aircraft of No. 14 Squadron carried out the RNZAF's first combat strike since the Second World War against guerrillas in the Malayan jungle.

In world history on this day in 1486, Christopher Columbus convinced Queen Isabella to fund an expedition to the West Indies. In 1927 Adolf Hitler held his first Nazi meeting in Berlin. In 1931 the Empire State Building opened in New York.

In 1941 the film Citizen Kane–directed and starring Orson Welles–opened in New York. In 1944 the Messerschmitt Me 262, the first combat jet, made its first flight.

In 1948 North Korea was established. In 1961 Fidel Castro announced there will be no more elections in Cuba. In 1986 the Tass News Agency reported the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.

Today is the birthday of Louis-Marie-Hilaire Bernigaud, a French chemist who invented artificial silk, known as rayon.He was born in 1839. It's also the birthday of James Graham. Born in 1878 he became the inventor of the first naval aircraft-carrying ship and first man to film a total eclipse of the Sun.

It's also the birthday of Joseph Heller, the American author who wrote Catch 22. Born in 1923, he once wrote "When I grow up I want to be a little boy."

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Have a great day!