SunLive weather is brought to you today by the Bay of Plenty Garden and Art Festival which begins on November 15. Today's mystery garden is located in Aongatete.

In today's weather forecast we are expecting a mostly cloudy day with a chance of afternoon or evening showers. Also sea breezes.

It's a one-clothing layer day today with a high of 19 and an overnight low of 13 degrees. Humidity is 74 per cent.

High tide is at 11am and low tide at 5.10pm (Tay Street). There's a sea swell of 0.9m and sea temperature is 16 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 7.56pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 3.30 and 5.30pm.

On this day in NZ history in 1912 a striker was fatally wounded at Waihī. Striking worker Fred Evans was badly injured in the goldmining town of Waihī. He died the next day.

In world history on this day in 1859 the first flying-trapeze circus act was performed by Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon.

In 1867 Mount Vesuvius erupted. In 1923 Adolf Hitler was arrested for his attempted German coup.

In 1960 the satellite Discoverer XVII is launched into orbit from California's Vandenberg AFB.

In 1968 the U.S. Supreme Court voided an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. In 1971 President Richard Nixon announced the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by February.

In 1990 Sir Timothy John 'Tim” Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, published a formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web.

In 2003 the Shanghai Transrapid set a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour) for commercial railway systems.

Today is the birthday of DeWitt Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest. Born in 1889, DeWitt once said 'I do believe in the value of ideas—and that eventually they get a man somewhere.”

To get involved in activities around the Bay of Plenty, please check out our What's on page.

SunLive weather is brought to you today by the Bay of Plenty Garden and Art Festival, and features one of the 70 beautiful gardens on the Garden and Art Trail.

Festival trail opening times: 9.30pm – 5pm Thursday November 15 to Saturday November 17; 9.30am - 3pm Sunday November 18.

Bloom in the Bay (Tauranga Historic Village) opening times: 9am - 9.30pm Thursday November 15 to Sunday November 18.

To find out more go to the Garden and Art Festival website.

Have a great day!