852 Agricultural Gazette of N.S.JF. [0<?/. 2, 1908, 



Meteorological Bureau, No. i Division, 

 New South Wales. 



Weather Conditions during August, 1908. 



S. WILSON, 

 Divisional Officer. 



At the beginning of the month severe cyclonic weather developed o\er the 

 eastern districts of New South Wales, from an extensive monsoonal dis 

 turbance which on the 1st covered the eastern half of Australia, This 

 disturbance enclosed a closed-curve depression, which had travelled southward 

 from the Gulf of Carpentaria at the rate of 600 miles per day, until on the 

 night of the 2nd it reached the south coast of New South Wales as a 

 cyclonic disturbance, its proximity being indicated by strong easterly gales. 

 During the 3rd and 4th, as it moved north-eastward, heavy rain, strong, and 

 in parts whole gales, and very rough seas marked its progress. One of the 

 best rainstorms over the State for many months resulted from this distri- 

 bution of pressure. The largest amounts registered between July 27 and 

 August 7 were, 1,808 points at Bondi, 1,626 at Rand wick, 1,566 at Sydney, 

 1,539 at Turramurra, 1,167 at Kiama, 1,110 at Parramatta, 1,095 at Maiming 

 Heads, 1,193 at Byron Bay, 1,042 at Katoomba, 1,012 at Lawson, 1,004 at 

 Nowra ; and, speaking generally, many others ranging between 1 inch and 

 10 inches. 



Finer conditions set in over western areas on the 4th, but the unsettled 

 showery weather persisted until the moi-ning of the 7 th on tlie coast, when 

 the rain area showed a tendency to work northward. 



On the South Queensland Coast, a depression which had been lingering 

 thereabouts since the 5th, gradually developed into a disturbance there on 

 the 7th, causing south-east to easterly winds, strong to gales, with heavy rain 

 and rough seas, as far southward as our North Coast districts. 



On the 8th an energetic disturbance was shown over the southern districts- 

 of West Australia, having its lowest barometric values between ^\.lbany and 

 Eucla, where very high seas and southerly gales occurred. The continent 

 otherwise was covered by a very extensive anticyclone, which stretched 

 eastward beyond New Zealand, and governed fine conditions generally over 

 the area it covered, excepting on the coast and In'gldand districts of New 

 South Wales, where some light to heavy rainfall was registered. The largest 

 amounts reported were 245 points at Lismore, 225 at Casino, 175 at 

 Nambucca, and 163 at Tweed Heads. 



By 9 a.m. on the 10th, rapid movements of the pressure systems had taken 

 place ; the anticyclone above mentioned had tilted north-eastwaid, and now 

 occupied only the eastern districts of the continent. The antarctic dis- 

 turbance had worked as far eastward as Melbourne, and another high 

 pressure with its centre over the West Australian goldfields covered the 



