PART V. THE SOUTHERN OCEAN 

 AND AUSTRALASIAN WEATHER. 



CHAPTER I. THE INFLUENCE OF THE 



SOUTHERN OCEAN ON THE INDIAN 



CLIMATE. 



AUSTRALASIA is more directly interested in a 

 second outcome of the Lockyers' comparison of 

 the rainfalls of India and Mauritius. Important 

 meteorological events in India and Mauritius 

 sometimes occur together, and at other times 

 they occur a year apart. Thus the heavy rain- 

 fall which occurs when the sun is hottest, occurs 

 simultaneously in India and Mauritius ; but 

 that maximum of rain which occurs at the 

 minimum of solar intensity affects Mauritius a 

 year earlier than it affects India. This fact the 

 Lockyers explain by the probable assumption 

 that the maximum of solar temperature affects 

 the continental areas of Africa, Asia, and South 

 America, directly, and thus India, the Cape, 

 and Cordova in Argentina are influenced 

 together. But the secondary maximum pro- 

 duced at the period of solar cold, affects India 

 and Mauritius indirectly, through changes which 



