Tue, 13 October

MARINE AND LAND FORECAST — WELLINGTON HARBOUR AND ENVIRONS Issued 0600. No change expected. Sky: sealed edge to edge. No breaks anticipated before dark. Wind: sou'westerly, sustained, the macrocarpa will not be allowed to straighten. Visibility: full, but nothing in it is moving. Cloud base: pressing. Petrol-blue shouldering into bruised violet-grey. One seam of sulphur light along the horizon. Not expected to widen. Gulls: absent. Contrails: absent. Change: none. Humidity: ninety-five percent, sitting inside the wire, inside the roof-iron, inside anything that holds still long enough to be measured. Outlook: as today. As yesterday. As tomorrow, probably.