SIRE SAE” SSRETENNGE TOBIN / TE i a ME Pe 
DURING THE WINTER MONTHS. 73 
to exist, and that instead of a set of low readings we find tha 
as in J uly, 1876 and 1877—the readings getting | high at our pe 
stations, and the gradients beginning to stee n the reverse 
order, I think we may fairly infer that an atnompherical diutuabanss 
of an anti-cyclonic character is lagi our coast, which may 
or may not reach our shores. If the last inference is true (as 
the writer believes it is, and fo believes that it is only by the 
careful study of meteorological data that this can be determined), 
but if it should be found to be so, then surely it would become 
our duty to urge upon the cing ernment of New South Wales the 
necessity of issuing from the Observatory by telegraph to the 
various outports bad weather forecasts, when cautionary storm- 
rnings could be hoisted, and old and ill-found vessels would 
remain in t until the storm had passed over, or the atmo- 
spherical disturbance had passed away. 
It may be said that the writer only gives the } 
preceding two gales, viz., those o f July, 1876 and 1877, to co 
stantiate this theory, a nd that this | is not sufficient. In reply he 
can only say that they are the only ones ; that he has been able (by 
being on the spot at the time) to look carefully. over the weather 
reports, during the gale of July, 1876, he was in Newcastle, and 
in July, 1 , he e was off Wollongong, when the gale commenced, 
und to eran e. 
In conctusion, the writer would like to place before your 
notice the good that oe been done on the coasts of Great Britain 
by the issuing of these storm warnings by the Meteorological 
Society, and the large percentage of successful warnings issued 
them ; and hopes that, by the careful study of data which 
ossess, We may Pic A some knowledge of fixed laws 
concerning these heavy storms which sweep upon our coast 
nearly every winter, and that warnings may be sent out, and the 
ives of our seamen be spared in the future ; and as one of the 
logs of the vessels who may arrive mre these gales are over, an 
most Spoons those vessels which may be en route to New South 
Wales from New Zealand ports, st so perhaps obtain information 
of their pee; shape, and their progressive movement. 
Discussion. 
Mr. C. Srvarr said: I consider that this is one of the most 
reliable papers upon this subject, or perhaps the only one we have 
ad during this year. It shows the great value that nautical 
gentlemen set upon the observations from the Observatory. Al- 
though the writer is not a member of the Society, he hoped the 
a would be considered of sufficient importance and suflic gan 
written to be printed in our volumes at the end of the y 
it is Sasi aith I will move — the paper be ae 
