TYPES. 



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Turning now to the charts of the westerly gale selected for 

 illustration, it will be seen in Chart 29, that this storm began on 

 September 3rd, 1895; on that day an elongated anticyclone lay 

 over Western Australia, a flattened and extensive \ over New 

 South Wales and Tasman Sea, and the winds generally displayed 

 great energy, as might be expected from the close isobars, and 

 unusually low barometers over Tasmania ; light rain was falling 

 on the coasts of South Australia and Victoria. 



On September 4th, Charb 30, the anticyclone is more elongated 

 and the A flattened until its isobars are nearly horizontal, and 

 heavy westerly gales swept all the south-eastern part of Australia 

 and all Tasmania. On the 3rd the wind at Sydney at noon for a 

 short time reached a velocity of seventy-eight miles per hour. On 

 the 4th the wind was less gusty, but its average velocity was quite 

 as strong as it was on the 3rd. 



TYPES 

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^ AUSTRALIAN WEATHER 



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TYPE XIV. SOUTHERLY BURSTERS. 



The southerly burster is a well known feature or type of Austra- 

 lian weather, so well marked in character indeed that it requires 

 no special training in meteorology to recognise it ; its character- 



