Posted: 08:17am Tue 25 Sep, 2018 | By Rosalie Liddle Crawford Rosalie@thesun.co.nz
Grape vines, Will Smith and the weather
Photos and video by Rosalie Liddle Crawford
In today's forecast we are expecting a few showers until evening, then becoming fine. Brisk westerlies, gusting 90 km per hour from the afternoon.
It's a three-clothing and one-windproof layer day today with a high of 14 and an overnight low of 9 degrees. Humidity is 67 per cent.
Low tide is at 12.50pm and high tide is at 7pm (Tay Street times). There's a sea swell of 0.4m with a sea temperature of 15 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 6.10pm.
If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 11am and 1pm.
On this day in NZ history in 1819 New Zealand's first grapevines planted, when missionary Samuel Marsden planted a vineyard at the Church Missionary Society station at Kerikeri.
In 1951 the Māori Women's Welfare League was established. Eighty-seven delegates attended the first day of the inaugural conference of the Māori Women's Welfare League in Wellington. Dame Whina Cooper was appointed as president.
In world history on this day in 1918 Brazil declared war on Austria. In 1937 German Chancellor Adolf Hitler met with Italian Premier Benito Mussolini in Munich.
In 1974 scientists warned that continued use of aerosol sprays will cause ozone depletion, which will lead to an increased risk of skin cancer and global weather changes.
In 1992 NASA launched the Mars Observer probe; it failed 11 months later. In 1996 Ireland's last Magdalene laundry closed; begun as asylums to rehabilitate 'fallen women,” they increasingly took on prison-like qualities.
Today is the birthday of Will Smith, rapper, actor and producer. Born in 1968, he once said "Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."
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Have a great day!
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