In today's forecast we are expecting showers, with a chance of them being heavy, easing during the morning, and becoming fine in the afternoon. Also northwesterlies.

It's a two-clothing layer day today with a high of 15 and an overnight low of 5 degrees. Humidity is 76 per cent.

Low tide is at 10.20am and high tide is at 4.50pm. There's a sea swell of .6m with a sea temperature of 15 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 5.42pm.

If you're going fishing today the best fish bite time is between 9 and 11am.

In NZ history on this day in 1920 Violet Waldron became New Zealand's first female Olympian. She was part of New Zealand's first Olympic team of four. She competed in freestyle swimming in the 1920 Antwerp Summer Olympics.

In 1939 writer Robin Hyde died in London. The journalist, poet and novelist, born Iris Wilkinson, was one of New Zealand's finest inter-war writers. Troubled by depression, illness and poverty, she took her own life in London.

In 1947 assisted immigration resumed after the war. The first draft of 118 British immigrants arrived in Auckland on the New Zealand Shipping Company liner Rangitata. They were among 77,000 men, women and children who arrived from Great Britain under the assisted immigration scheme between 1947 and 1975.

In world history on this day in 1914 the Emperor of Japan declared war on Germany. In 1944 German SS engineers began placing explosive charges around the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

In 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from the moon. In 1977 Bryan Allen, piloting the Gossamer Condor, won the Kremer prize for the first human-powered aircraft to fly a one-mile, figure-eight course.

Today is the birthday of Keith Moon, drummer in The Who. Born in 1946, he once said "I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh."

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Have a great day!