In today's forecast we are expecting periods of rain, and southeasterlies.

It's a two-clothing layer day today with a high of 16 and an overnight low of 9 degrees. Humidity is 100 per cent.

Low tide is at 7.30am and high tide is at 1.50pm. There's a sea swell of 1.2m with a sea temperature of 15 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 5.28pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is tomorrow morning between 7 and 9am.

In NZ history on this day in 1936 Jack Lovelock won the 1500 m gold at Berlin. Jack won New Zealand's first Olympic athletics gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in a race witnessed by 120,000 spectators – including Adolf Hitler.

In 2012 Valerie Adams won a second Olympic gold. She was was awarded a gold medal for the shot put at the London Olympic games. However, it was awarded a week after the competition took place, after the intial winner was disqualified for testing positive for an anabolic steroid.

In world history on this day in 1914 Serbia declared war on Germany, and Austria declared war on Russia. In 1926 Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

In 1945 Hiroshima, Japan was devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" was dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people were killed instantly, and some tens of thousands died in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

In 1991, Tim Berners-Lee released files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuted as a publicly available service on the Internet. In 1996, NASA announced that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contained evidence of primitive life-forms. In 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars.

Today is the birthday of English poet, Lord Alfred Tennyson. Born in 1809, he once wrote "No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”

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