The weather forecast today is for rain developing in the morning, with a chance of it turning heavy, but clearing in the evening. Also southwesterlies.

It's a two-clothing layer day today with a high of 17 and an overnight low of 8 degrees. Humidity is 94 per cent.

High tide is at 9.10 am and low tide at 3.20 pm (Tay Street tide times).

There's a sea swell of 1.0 and sea temperature is 14 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 5.48pm.

If you're going fishing today the next best fishing time is between 2 and 4pm.

In New Zealand history on this day in 1903 four people were killed by a Rotorua geyser. Guide Joseph Warbrick and three tourists were killed instantly when the Waimangu geyser erupted unexpectedly.

In 1926 the Kawarau Falls dam became operational. Hundreds attended the opening ceremony for a dam above the Kawarau Falls which was to temporarily block the outlet from Lake Wakatipu and hopefully expose gold-bearing rock to prospectors.

In world history on this day in 1963 a Hot Line communications link was installed between Moscow and Washington, DC.

Today is the birthday of Ernest Rutherford, NZ physicist who discovered and named alpha, beta and gamma radiation and was the first to achieve a man-made nuclear reaction. A Nobel Prize winning nuclear physicist, he was known as the "father" of nuclear physics. 'Born on this day in 1871 he once said 'We're like children who always want to take apart watches to see how they work” and 'We've got no money, so we've got to think.”

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Have a great day!