TYPES OF AUSTRALIAN WEATHER. 517 
| On April 18th and 19th, 1894 (Chart Nos. 4 and 5) occurred one 
| of the finest monsoonal rain storms on record, the area affected 
being very extensive, embracing the whole of the eastern colonies, 
Tasmania, and the greater part of South Australia. Many inches 
—up to five and six—of rain were recorded on the north-east 
coast of Queensland, and over the eastern half of the rain area 
the country benefitted to the extent of over two inches generally 
before the storm was over. 
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On this Chart No. 4 the monsoonal isobars, after passing the 
est southern part of the tongue, are shown sweeping round & 
high Pressure of considerable energy, situated over the Great 
Bight. Following these isobars to the eastward, we find them 
7 — Over another high pressure of greater energy in the 
man Sea. On Chart No. 5, both anticyclones will be noticed to 
a Worked northward, and while so doing they have lost some 
on ae Pressure, and the low pressure tongue has extended a 
° and broadened ; at the tip, two cyclonic rain centres will be 
ed to have formed, 
8 antecedent to 18th April presented the general 
: mistics of Chart No. 1, except that the antarctic A depress- 
