In today's forecast we are expecting an overcast day with showers and northerly breezes.

It's a one-clothing layer day today with a high of 18 and an overnight low of 13 degrees. Humidity is 95 per cent.

High tide is at 12.30pm and low tide is at 6.40pm (Tay Street times). There's a sea swell of .3m with a sea temperature of 14 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 6.03pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 5.20pm and 7.20pm.

On this day in NZ history in 1941 flogging and whipping was abolished. As well as temporarily doing away with capital punishment for murder, the Crimes Amendment Act 1941 abolished judicial provision for flogging and whipping.

In world history on this day in 1787 the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia approved the constitution for the United States of America.

In 1916 Germany's 'Red Baron,” Manfred von Richthofen, won his first aerial combat. In 1942 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met with Soviet Premier Josef Stalin in Moscow as the German Army rammed into Stalingrad.

In 1959 the X-15 rocket plane made its first flight. In 1976 the Space Shuttle was unveiled to the public.

In 2006 Alaska's Fourpeaked Mountain erupted for the first time in at least 10,000 years. In 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement calling for greater social and economic equality began in New York City's Zuccotti Park, coining the phrase 'We are the 99 per cent.”

Today is the birthday of Marquis Marie Jean de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher, a leading thinker in the Enlightenment. Born in 1743 he once said 'Our hopes, as to the future condition of the human species, may be reduced to three points: the destruction of inequality between different nations; the progress of equality in one and the same nation; and lastly, the real improvement of man.”

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Have a great day!