856 Agriculturcd Gazette of N.S. W. 



\_Oct. 2, 1908. 



July SJth, a very heavy thunder and hailstorm was experienced in tlie city 

 and suburbs ; and on the 20th a warm Avave developed from combined 

 antarctic and raonsoonal influence, the 9 a.m. readings of the temperature 

 reaching well into the seventies. At Sythicy, the maximum — 73 degrees — 

 established a record for the season. This temj)erature was exceeded in July 

 on only thi'ce occasions during 49 years, and eclipsed all maximuni records 

 in June since 1872, when 74^7 was registered- on the 24th. 



The totals during August were moi-e satisfactory than those of either June 

 or July, for, excepting Riverina and the Central disti'icts of the State, falls 

 more or less in excess of the average have l)eeii experienced. As a result 

 mainly of the rainstorm in the early part of the month, a great preponderance 

 over the normal amount appears in the totals of many stations in the coastal, 

 highland, and metropolitan districts. The largest figures were : In the 

 Central Tablelands, 1,111 points at Lawson, and 1,035 at Katoomba ; on the 

 Southern Tablelands, 743 at Araluen, 489 at Crookwell, and 472 at Nimity- 

 belle; on North Coast, 1,341 at Byron Bay, 1,228 at Tweed Heads, 773 at 

 Casino, and 754 at Lismore, Hunter, and Manning, 782 at Camden Haven, 

 and 732 at Port Macquarie ; ^Metropolitan, 968 at Sydney, 805 at Kurrajong, 

 and 694 at Parramatta ; South Coast, 1,124 at Kiama, 1,018 at Ulladulla, 

 934 at Wollongong, and 908 at Nowra. 



Temperature of the past Winter. 

 Notwithstanding the occurrence during certain days of some relatively warm 

 weather, the temperature over the State generally during the winter of 1908 

 may be said to have been below the average. The departures from normal, 

 in degrees, are shown in the following table, for representative stations : — 



Comparison with India. 



The following is a statement showing a brief comparison of the chief 

 meteorological elements over India, together with Australia as far as data 

 are available, for the month of August, 1908 : — 



