172 HENRY A. HUNT. 



and cumulus extent 4; 10 p.m., overcast nimbus, raining lightly 

 and intermittently until 3 a.m. on 16th, when it came down 

 heavily in Sydney ; to south of city it started to rain heavily 

 three quarters of an hour before, and at 2*45 a.m. a heavy clap of 

 thunder was heard with continued rumblings. The rain con- 

 tinued heavy for another hour, when it tailed off. 



February 16th — A heavy shower at 9 a.m., light showers 

 during rest of day. 



The weather chart of the morning of the 16th February shews 

 that in the previous twenty-four hours the whole storm system 

 had moved about five hundred miles to the east (see weather 

 chart No. 2), the front isobars of the anti-cyclone overlapping the 

 coast line and the low pressure between Tasmania and the Bluff. 

 The isobars are numerically of the same value as on the 15th, but 

 they have spread out and lost energy, weather generally cooler, 

 with rain in Victoria and on western slopes of the main range in 

 New South Wales. 



The second burster to which I shall refer, reached Sydney at 

 2*15 a.m., February 22nd, 1894, weather chart No. 3 and the 

 accompanying diagram of this period show a great deal more 

 energy in weather conditions generally than there was on February 

 15th. The isobars enclosing the approaching anti-cyclone are 

 more numerous and of higher value. The wind circulation is 

 more regular and moderate to fresh in force generally. The 

 tropical low pressure is also a defined and active feature. The 

 y\ depression it will be observed on the 22nd was ill-formed, and 

 hence notwithstanding the anti-cyclonic feature favouring a good 

 blow, this burster was little better than that of the 15 th February. 



The weather antecedent to this southerly was comparatively 

 speaking cooler in central parts of Australia than on the coast, 

 there was also much thunder cloud, and scattered showers fell 

 in south-west Queensland and northern parts of South Australia 

 on the 21st, these points may in part account for the want of force 

 in this burster. The preceding north-east wind blew for the 



