3Iar. 2, 1908.] J(/rmdtural Gazette of N.S. W. 245 



^U:teorological Bureau, No. 4 Division, 

 New South Wales. 



Weather Conditions during January, 1908, 



S. WILSON, 

 Divisional Officer. 



At the beginning of the month the rear isobars of a high pressure were 

 located over New South Wales, Victoria, and the main portion of Queens- 

 land, with its centre covering the eastern districts of Nev/ South Wales. 

 This distribution persisted until the 9th, when it began to move towards the 

 north-east. Its stagnation over the Eastern States resulted in a heat wave 

 ill South Australia and Victoria, which gradually affected parts of our 

 Western districts, as it was permitted to move eastward by the displacement 

 of the anticyclone. The highest temperatures reported on the 10th were — 

 111 degrees at Bourke, 108 at Brewarrina, 106 at Carinda and Mogil, and 

 105 at White Cliffs. 



The rainfall during the week ended the 7th was light to molerate and 

 pa'chy, but the passage of a low pressure over our State between the 8th and 

 I I th was attended by some go id general falls. The greatest amounts during 

 that period were — In Western Division, 200 points at Hungerford and 166 

 atNymagee; North-western Plain, 237 atPilliga; Central Western Plain, 103 

 at Carinda; Riverina, 50 points at Deniliquin ; North-western Slope, 122 at 

 Bingara : Central-western Slope, 346 at Dubbo ; South-west Slope, 69 at 

 Marsdens ; Northern Tablelands, 309 at Armidale ; Southern Tablelands, 

 374 at Bombala ; North Coast, 235 at Byron Bay ; Hunter and Manning, 

 70 at Port Stephens; Metropolitan, I 90 at Kurrajong ; South Coast. 127 at 

 Pambula. 



Light to moderate rain continued in the extreme north-east corner until 

 the 16th, but otherwise fine weather ruled over the State generally. 



High temperatures again occurred : Euston registering 117 degrees on the 

 17th; Deniliquin and Balranald, each 115; Wentworth, 114; Hay, 111 ; 

 and Tirana and Wagga, each 110 degrees. Hot weather conditions prevailed 

 more or less generally until the 20th, when they weie displaced by a cool 

 southerly change. An extensive anticyclone controlled the weather of the 

 southern half of the continent on the 21st, and fine weather was experienced 

 over the greater portion of that area ; but at 9 a.m. on the 22nd, monsoonal 

 conditions appeared over the Eastern States and caused rainfall of rather 

 patchy character, associated with thunder, over Central and Eastern districts 

 of our State on the 23rd and 24th. The distribution was as follows : — In 

 the Western Division, from 1 point at Bourke to 135 at Euabalong ; North- 



