In today's forecast we are expecting a fine day with southwest breezes.

It's a three-clothing and one-windproof layer day today with a high of 17 and an overnight low of 6 degrees. Humidity is 85 per cent.

Low tide is at 3pm and high tide is at 9pm (Tay Street times). There's a sea swell of 0.3m with a sea temperature of 15 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 6.12pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 6pm and 9pm.

On this day in NZ history in 1899 New Zealand answered the empire's call to arms. Premier Richard ‘King Dick' Seddon asked Parliament to approve an offer to the British government of a contingent of mounted riflemen to serve in South Africa. Amid emotional scenes, the members overwhelmingly endorsed the motion – only five voted against it.

In world history on this day in 1066 William, Duke of Normandy, soon to be known as William the Conqueror invaded England. In 1904 a woman was placed under arrest for smoking a cigarette on New York's Fifth Avenue.

In 1924 three U.S. Army aircraft arrived in Seattle, Washington after completing a 175-day round-the-world flight. In 1928 Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin when he noticed a bacteria-killing mould growing in his laboratory; it remained for Howard Florey and Ernst Chain to isolate the active ingredient, allowing the 'miracle drug” to be developed in the 1940's.

In 1959 Explorer VI, the U.S. satellite, took the first video pictures of Earth. In 2008 SpaceX launched the first private spacecraft, Falcon 1.

Today is the birthday of Al Capp, the cartoonist who created the 'Li'l Abner” comic strip. Born in 1909 he once said "Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."

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