In today's weather forecast we are expecting high cloud, then rain from the afternoon. This may develop into heavy rain in the evening, with strong southeasterlies.

It's a three-clothing layer day today with a high of 16 and an overnight low of 12 degrees. Humidity is 94 per cent.

Low tide is at 10.20am and high tide is at 4.40pm. There's a sea swell of 0.2m this morning with a sea temperature of 16 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 4.59pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 8.30 and 10.30am.

In NZ history on this day in 1901 Cornwall Park was gifted to Auckland. At a civic reception for the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, John Logan Campbell handed over the deed to the land around One Tree Hill/Maungakiekie. The new park was named in honour of the royal couple.

In world history on this day in 1770 Captain James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef. In 1895 Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.

In 1927 Charles Lindbergh, a captain in the US Army Air Corps Reserve, received the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded, for his solo trans-Atlantic flight. In 1930 William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, dived to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda, in a diving chamber called a bathysphere.

In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.

Today is the birthday of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Born in 1910, he was a French oceanic explorer, filmmaker, author and inventor of the aqualung. He once wrote "The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it".

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Have a great day!