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THE BLIZZAED OF JUNE 9-12, 1902. 
By a. G. Howard, M.S.A., Cape Town. 
(Bead August 21, 1912.) 
In November, 1904, a paper was read at Johannesburg before the 
South African Association for the Advancement of Science, the author of 
which was Mr. C. M. Stewart, B.Sc, at that time Secretary to the Meteoro- 
logical Commission. The subject of this paper was ''The BUzzard of 
June 9-12, 1902." It is therein surmised that "judging from the baro- 
metric readings, this storm seems to have originated in an area of low 
pressure in the north of the Colony, while the pressure in the west and 
south was increasing rapidly, after the passage of a depression south of 
our coasts." 
With a view to ascertaining what weather conditions existed at and 
prior to the dates given, the writer has carefully studied the distribution 
of pressure, direction of wind, &c., with the following results : — 
On the 7th it was seen that a depression was approaching from the 
south-west, moving towards the south coast, and that it would pass to the 
east of Cape Agulhas. It passed that station on the same evening, but 
affected the Observatory very little, except by causing some rain to fall. 
On the morning of the 8th it was passing along the coast and was followed 
by a " high." During the night of the 8th-9th a secondary passed Cape 
Agulhas, and was seen to be off the south coast on the morning of the 
9th. This was opposed by the lower limit of the equatorial tongue of low 
pressure, and snow fell at Caledon, Concordia, &c. On the 8th the equa- 
torial tongue had developed energy, and was being pushed to the east by 
the high." As it pressed against the Transvaal anticyclone it brought 
down warm, moist north winds. On the 9th the Transvaal anticyclone 
had moved to the east, the northerly depression had separated, one part 
becoming an entity and resting over the Free State, while the tongue was 
weaker. The southern inverted V depression joined forces with the Free 
State subsidiary cyclone, and a secondary had formed in the Transvaal 
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