96 ' §TORMS ON THE COAST OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
The southerly was only a puff of the coming storm, and it i 
is 
interesting because it shows how difficult it was to displace the 
tropical current. 
30°242, and at Sydney it was down to 29°652, which shows that 
the surface of the ground. The an 
the AP of the hill on which the Observatory stands, wh 
ere the 
as full play, and I have frequently found the velocity of, 
wind near the surface 50 per cent. less than where the instru- 
ment is. Now following the squall north, it, reached Newcastle 
bas 
