In today's forecast we are expecting a partly cloudy day with a northwesterly developing in the evening.

It's a three-clothing layer day today with a high of 15 and an overnight low of 9 degrees. Humidity is 100 per cent.

High tide is at 10.20am and low tide is at 4.30pm. There's a sea swell of .2m with a sea temperature of 15 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 5.25pm.

If you're going fishing the best fish bite time is between 7 and 10am.

In NZ history on this day in 1983 the visit of the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Texas sparked anti-nuclear rallies and protests on land and sea. In 1992 Barbara Kendall won gold at Barcelona. Windsurfer Barbara Kendall was New Zealand's only gold medallist at the Barcelona Olympics.

In world history on this day in 47 BC Caesar defeated Pharnaces at Zela in Syria and declared, 'veni, vidi, vici,” (I came, I saw, I conquered). In 1776 the US Continental Congress, having decided unanimously to make the Declaration of Independence, affixed the signatures of the other delegates to the document.

In 1819 the first parachute jump from a balloon was made by Charles Guille in New York City. In 1847 William A. Leidesdorff launched the first steam boat in San Francisco Bay.

In 1934 German President Paul von Hindenburg died and Adolf Hitler became chancellor. In 1943 Lt. John F. Kennedy, towing an injured sailor, swam to a small island in the Solomon Islands. The night before, his boat, PT-109, had been split in half by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri.

In 1965 newsman Morley Safer filmed the destruction of a Vietnamese village by U.S. Marines. In 1990 Iraqi forces invaded neighboring Kuwait.

Today is the birthday of physicist John Tyndall. Born in 1820, he was the first scientist to show why the sky is blue. He is also commonly credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which underpins the science of climate change. He once said "The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact."

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Have a great day!