90 STORMS ON THE COAST OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
becoming more rapid after 11 p.m., and by midnight a light 
easterly wind with rain had set in, and looked very like the gale 
ominghome On 31st, from Clarence River to Cape George wind 
had changed to N.E. to E. with rain. Still heavy sea in places. At 
Sydney the morning looked very dirty, and barometer fell 0°18 
by 12°30 p.m., when a terrific shower of rain came on. 1 inch 
fell in 6 minutes, and the weather cleared up from west. 
On August Ist and 2nd, the wind got round to west again, and 
the weather cleared up. : 
to the east of us, for during the recent storms the miles of wind 
ied 
om west by south-west and south to east. Now, 
this is the normal way for the wind to veer here north- 
west d tropical; the west— compound of north-west 
and south-west—is ge ally with us a low b eter wind, 
proving that we are generally in the light or tropical part of the 
current; and a wind veers to south the barometer rises to 
its may and when the.wind reaches south-east, that is in the 
westerly (tropical) winds, we see nothing of the polar (south- 
east) current; but in the same series we have seen that if the 
_ westerly fails in force then the south-east gale comes in. nae 
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