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TYPE XX.—THE ADVENT OF AN ANTARCTIC STORM. 
This is a type of weather that does not often visit Australia 
hat its severity makes it noteworthy for the winds and weather 
which come with it are very destructive, and the cold severe, it 
might almost be called a southern blizzard; yet the warning is 
short and often difficult to read, for it comes from the Antarctic 
where we have no out stations. 
Foe —— consideration began to affect the south coast 
1age (Chass making the winds fresh to strong on June 2st, 
_’ \~aart 39), yet the season (winter) and the general conditions. 
i < wal winds, and said nothing definite of the storm 
€graphed on the morning of June 22nd, (Chart 40). 
an. were then seen to be four-tenths lower in Tasmania 
finties Be iy on the 21st, and the wind had increased < a 
tad the ay aren south coast of South Australia and Victoria, 
ile bias é TS Indicate a very steep grade commensurate with 
a Pi mote also the wind rose in places to hurricane 
and trees bio rat, in western Victoria, buildings were unroofed 
own down. So severe was it there that the storm is 
4s the Ballarat storm. 
