TYPES. 



83 



'Picton reported 4 - 76" rain. It has not been possible to present 

 this as an example, because one of the days was a Sunday when 

 very few observations are recorded. 



As a rule these north-east cyclones recurve at the coast line. 

 Charts 22 and 23 show the weather conditions on March 10th 

 and llth, 1891. 



On March 10th there was a sudden fall of pressure on the coast 

 of Queensland, about latitude 24 (Chart 22), and an accession 



TYPES 

 AUSTRALIAN WEATHER 



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Cyclones from North Ea-tt 

 22 to 24 



of wind and sea which clearly heralded the coming storrn. This 

 was intensified on March llth, (Chart 23) by a further fall of 

 three-tenths of an inch, and three more isobars of the cyclone were 

 marked on the coast south to south-east ; gales prevailed in its 

 neighbourhood with very heavy rains. 



On March 12th, (Chart 24) the anticyclone had retreated to 

 New Zealand, and the cyclone travelled to the south along the 

 coast intensifying as it came. The barometer curve at Brisbane 

 was exactly of the cyclone type and dropped to 29 '5. In the 

 southern part of Queensland and northern of New South Wales 

 heavy southerly to easterly gales were experienced. On the 13th 

 the storrn had disappeared to the eastward. 



