MOVING ANTICYCLOXKS. 



TABLE II. MONTHLY CHANGE OF LATITUDE OP THE ANTICYCLONES. 



* Not included in mean. 



It must be borne in mind that the tracks are seldom straight, 

 and that at times they are very erractic. The above positions 

 for each month have been obtained from careful eye estimates of 

 the mean positions, and this must be borne in mind in using the 

 table. The tracks for 1891, diagrams 9 to 20, will illustrate what 

 is meant, and, will justify the course adopted in preference to 

 that of taking the measured latitude of a series of points 'in each 

 curve. The individual curves are too irregular for such a method. 



It will be observed that the maximum of latitude is in February, 

 a month after the hottest month ; and the minimum in June, 

 which is not our coldest month. Perhaps however, June should 

 be rejected from this attempt to determine the monthly latitude, 

 because in that month, for some reason not obvious, the tracks 

 are much more erratic than in any other month of the year, and 

 it is almost impossible to take a mean latitude for it ; and if it be 

 rejected the minimum would be between July and August, July 

 being our coldest month. 



It is our experience that when an anticyclone track is far from 

 the mean, the weather is also far from the mean. For instance, 

 in June 1891 two tracks were down in latitude 37 instead of 27, 

 and we had, as a consequence, fourteen and a half inches of rain, 

 an excessive quantity, the mean being five and a quarter inches. 



