78 



AUSTRALIAN WEATHER. 



TYPE VIII. CYCLONES FROM NORTH-WEST. 



From time to time fully developed cyclonic storms appear on 

 the north-west and west coasts of Australia, and in the Australian 

 Bight, but the absence of observing stations in the unoccupied 

 country which lies between the overland telegraph line and the 

 west coast of Australia, makes it impossible to trace them over 

 that part of the continent, but cyclones are well known on the 

 northern coast of Western Australia, and their formation in the 

 tropics equally well known. There can therefore be no doubt 

 that when we find a cyclone on the western coast of Australia 

 or in the Australian Bight, that it is one which has come from 

 the north-west, and is in fact recurving to the east and south-east 

 as they do on the east coast. 



The one selected for Type 8 was picked up on the west coast of 

 Australia in Latitude 28 on July 4th, 1892, (See Chart No. 17)! 

 The winds were light, but the rain heavy along the coast; an inert 

 anticyclone rested over South Australia, Victoria, and New 

 South Wales, where it was moving to the east and making room 

 for the approaching storm. 



TYPES 



OF 



AUSTRALIAN WEATHER 

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J~lt.lv .4. ! 



Cvc/o/ies from North 

 17 to 19 



