In today's forecast we are expecting a fine day with southwesterlies dying out.

It's a three-clothing and one-windproof layer day today with a high of 15 and an overnight low of 5 degrees. Humidity is 87 per cent.

High tide is at 8.20am and low tide is at 2.30pm. There's a sea swell of .2m with a sea temperature of 15 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 5.22pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 4.30 and 7.30pm.

In NZ history on this day in 1979 carless days for motor vehicles were introduced to combat the second ‘oil shock' or petrol shortage of the 1970's. They did little to reduce consumption and were scrapped in May 1980.

In world history on this day in 1938 George Eastman demonstrated his colour motion picture process. In 1940 a bombing lull ended the first phase of the Battle of Britain. In 2003 the last of the uniquely shaped 'old style” Volkswagen Beetles rolled off the assembly line in Mexico. In 2012 there was a blackout in India as a power grid failure left over 300 million people without power.

Today is the birthday of author and poet Emily Bronte, who was born in 1818 and wrote 'Wuthering Heights'. It's also the birthday of singer and songwriter Kate Bush, who was born in 1958 and was the first woman to have a UK number-one single with the self-written song 'Wuthering Heights'.

Emily Bronte once wrote "A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone." Kate Bush wrote "I think quotes are very dangerous things."

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Have a great day!