In today's weather forecast we are expecting a sunny day with low southwesterlies.

It's a one-clothing layer day today with a high of 27 and an overnight low of 16 degrees.

Low tide is at 8.30am and high tide is at 2.50pm. Sea temperature is 21 degrees. There's an average sea swell of 1m. Sunset tonight is at 8.26pm.

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

This day in NZ history in 1961 was the first Golden Kiwi draw. Tickets went on sale for New Zealand's new national Golden Kiwi lottery. All 250,000 tickets sold within 24 hours, with the £12,000 top prize (equivalent to around $500,000 today) four times that offered in previous lotteries.

In world history on this day in 1901 Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic radio transmission in St. John's Newfoundland.

Our inspirational quote today is from Dr. Robert Schuller who said 'Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

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