I^ov, 2, 1908.1 Agricultural Gazette of N.S. W 



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Central and Southern Districts.. Fine weather ruled for the most part, with 

 the exception of extensive cloud areas over coastal districts, and a few 

 isolated showers. 



By 9 a.m. on the 8th, the anticyclone had worked north-eastward, thus- 

 giving inducement to the northward expansion of the outer isobars of a. 

 very extensive depression located in the Southern Ocean. Fresh to strong 

 north-west to westerly winds resulted between Streaky Bay and Gabo, with 

 slight to rough seas. Cloudy conditions still persisted over the southern shores- 

 of Australia, but otherwise the weather was fine tluoughout. On the 9th 

 the high pressure had assumed an elongated appearance, lying east to west^ 

 whilst the antartic disturbance had steepened considerably, with its isobars- 

 arranged horizontally over Victoria and Tasmania- As a consequence^ 

 winds strengthened from the west to the force of a fresh gale, and seas 

 became more disturbed in and about the Straits. These unsettled cond'*:ions. 

 were displaced from the south-east corner of the continent by a fouthsrn 

 expansion of the high pressure as it moved forward and assured fine and 

 milder weather over the eastern half of Australia. Within the following 

 twenty-four hours this high pressure worked over to the eastern districts, and 

 permitted the expansion eastward of another depression, which at 9 a.m. on. 

 the 11th, covered the south-west quadrant of the continent. 



The highest and lowest temperatures registered between the ith and the 

 11th over the various subdivisions of the State were as follow :— 



85 degrees at Bourke. 



33 degrees at Balranald 



Western Division ... 

 North-western Plain 

 Central-western Plain 

 Eiverina 



North-western Sloj)e 

 Central-western Slope 

 South-western Slope 

 Northern Tableland 

 Central Tableland 

 Southern Tableland 

 Nortii Coast 

 Hunter and Manning 

 Metropolitan 

 South Coast 



Between the 11th and 18th, two anticylones and two antarctic depressions 

 were shown on the isobaric chart, the general effect of their passage over the 

 continent being alternate experiences of warmth and cold, as also fine and 

 wet weather. 



On the 11th, a very extensive "high " was just leaving the mainland of 

 Australia by way of the eastern districts of Queensland and the north-west 

 quadrant of New South Wales. Following closely on this departing anti- 

 cyclone was an energetic depression, whose northern limits reached as far 

 inland as Alice Springs, and which covered the greater part of the south- 

 eastern States. Unsettled weather, associated with thunder, was experienced 

 generally east from the Darling, some of the falls exceeding 1 inch in the 

 Central and Southern Slopes and Tablelands, Kiandra had 136 points^ 

 Orange, 117, Crookwell, 104, and Hockley, 109; the other amounts ranged 

 from a few points to three-quarters of an inch. On the same day another 



