In today's weather forecast we are expecting morning cloud otherwise a fine day. Westerly breezes will be dying out.

It's a one-clothing layer day today with a high of 26 and an overnight low of 17 degrees. Humidity is 79 per cent.

Low tide is at 8.30am and high tide at 2.50pm(Tay St). There's a sea swell of 0.3m and sea temperature is 20 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 8.36pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 8 and 10pm.

On this day in NZ history in 1853 George Grey left New Zealand after his first term as governor. During his first term as governor, George Grey was praised for ending the Northern War and obtaining land from Māori, but he angered settlers by delaying the implementation of a constitution that would have given them political power.

On this day in world history in 1923 the Sahara was crossed by an automobile for the first time.

In 1944 Hungary declared war on Germany.

Today is the birthday of George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army during World War II, Secretary of State under Truman, he won a Nobel Peace Prize for the Marshall Plan. Born in 1889 he once said 'The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.”

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