TYPES OF AUSTRALIAN WEATHER. 541 
Turning now to the charts of the westerly gale selected for 
illustration, it will be seen in Chart 29, that this storm began on 
September 3rd, 1895; on that day an elongated anticyclone lay 
over Western Australia, a flattened and extensive , over New 
South Wales and Tasman Sea, and the winds generally displayed 
great energy, as might be expected from the close isobars, and 
unusually low barometers over Tasmania ; light rain was falling 
on the coasts of South Australia and Victoria. 
On September 4th, Chart 30, the anticyclone is more elongated 
and the q flattened until its isobars are nearly horizontal, and 
heavy westerly gales swept all the south-eastern part of Australia 
and all Tasmania. On the 3rd the wind at Sydney at noon for a 
short time reached a velocity of seventy-eight miles per hour. On 
the 4th the wind was less gusty, but its average velocity was quite 
as strong as it was on the 3rd. 
TYPE XIV.—SOUTHERLY BURSTERS. 
The Southerly burster is a well known feature or type of Austra- 
Sam » debs marked in character indeed that it requires 
" raining in meteorology to recognise it ; its character- 
