In today's weather forecast we are expecting rain, heavy with a chance of it being thundery, easing to showers in the afternoon. Also northwesterlies.

It's a one-clothing layer day today with a high of 23 and an overnight low of 14 degrees. Humidity is 94 per cent.

Low tide is at 11.30am and high tide at 5.30pm(Tay St). There's a sea swell of 1 metre and sea temperature is 20 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 8.31pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 9.30 and 11.30am.

On this day in NZ history in 1832 New Zealand held its first cricket match. Church Missionary Society (CMS) leader Henry Williams gave the male pupils (Māori and Pākehā) of his mission school at Paihia in the Bay of Islands a rare day off.

In 1913 the Great Strike of 1913, which had begun in late October when Wellington waterside workers stopped work, finally ended when the United Federation of Labour conceded defeat.

On this day in world history in 1924 Adolf Hitler was released from prison after serving less than one year of a five year sentence for treason.

In 1933 the German government announced 400,000 citizens were to be sterilized because of hereditary defects. In 1938 the first electronic television system was patented.

In 1963 four thousand people crossed the Berlin Wall to visit relatives under a 17-day Christmas accord.

In 1995 NATO began peacekeeping operations in Bosnia.

In 2007 Queen Elizabeth II became the oldest monarch in the history of the UK; previously, that honour belonged to Queen Victoria.

Today is the birthday of Harvey Firestone, industrialist and tyre maker. Born in 1868, he once said 'Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.”

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Have a great day!