Dec. 2. 190S.] Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. 1037 



In the western districts, at Bourke, 102 dc-rices was reached, and at 

 Menindie, 100 degrees; on the North- western Plains, Mogil, 93 degrees; 

 Central-western Plain, Quambone and Coonamble, each 99 degrees ; Riverina, 

 Hay, 99 degrees ; North-western Slopes, Narrabri, Gunnedah, and Quirindi, 

 each 90 degrees ; Central-western Slopes, Wellington, 94 degrees ; South- 

 western Slopes, Marsden's, and Barmedman, each 92 degrees ; Northern Table- 

 lands, Tabulam and Glen Innes, each 8-t degrees ; Central Tablelands, Cuwra, 

 92 degrees ; Southern Tableland, Goulburn, 83 degi-ees ; North Coast, 

 Kempsey, 92 degi-ees ; Hunter and Manning, Jerry's Plains, 95 degrees ; 

 Metropolitan, Parramatta, 94 degrees ; South Coast, Picton, 94 degrees. 



By the 8th, the high-pressure had given way slightly, and permitted the 

 advance of the depression, so that at 9 a.m. only its rear isobai'S were shown 

 over the eastern districts of our State. Another high pressure, which on the 

 7th was centrally situated in the south-west corner of West Australia, was, 

 at 9 a m. on the following day, located 900 miles eastward on the southern 

 seaboard, having travelled at almost double the normal rate. Between the 

 night of the 7th and 1 p.m. on the 8th, a cool squally southerly change swept 

 across the State from west to east, and light to moderate rainfall was 

 recorded in western districts and Riverina. Between the 9th and 16th, two 

 anticyclones and one depression governed the weather of Australia. 



The first high-pressure travelled very slowly after reaching the centre of 

 the continent. On the 10th, its centre was shown to the south-east of 

 Adelaide, after which it gradually worked eastward with decreasing pressure 

 until the coastline of New South Wales was passed. It then worked north- 

 •eastward and gained slightly in barometric value. The northern isobars of 

 the antarctic depression appeared in the south-west corner of Australia on 

 the 10th, and gradually expanded until the 14th, by which time it had 

 attained abnormal dimensions, covering the greater part of the w^estern half 

 of Australia. On the 15th it was shown over the central districts of the 

 continent, between Northern Territory and the Great Bight, the centre, 29 '6 

 inches, occupying a position to the south-west of Eyre. By 9 a.m. on the 

 16th the depression had travelled eastward and steepened considerably, 

 its central value now l^eing 29'28 inches on the west coast of Tasmania. 

 With the above distribution of atmospheric pressure during the week, 

 sultry, unsettled, and rainy conditions were experienced more or less generally 

 over the continent. 



Splendid rains occurred over western portions of Queensland and New 

 South Wales, as also in South Australia and Victoria, many stations in that 

 area recording amounts of 1 inch and over, some of the falls exceeding 

 2 inches. 



Rough seas were also experienced along the southern shores of the conti- 

 nent, with fresh to strong northerly winds on the advance side of the 

 disturbance, and cool southerly at the rear. 



Between the 17th and 24th one anticyclone and one antarctic depression 

 controlled the weather of Australia. The former pres.sure system was 

 situated in the south-western half on the 17th, after which it advanced very 

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