WEATHER CHART.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6870, 7 March 1883, Page 3

WEATHER CHART.

March 6, 9 ran.

Austnatti, . Vine weather with high pressure over south ana east Australia and Tasmania, with moderate variable winds. f Barometer.—Albany, 801 j Hobart, Portland, and Sydney, *>>B. rtftaiflf'

N«W ZBAtAltn. Blight depression lo north* west, with light south-east winds. Heavy rain at Wellington in the night (•? inuh) t showery at Taranaki and Timoru. BarometerKusisU and Wei-

EXULAHATIOK. This diagram show# the weather over temperate latitudes of Australia end Now Zealand. 3!hd dottoa line* or isobars connect equal reading* o£ the barometer at 9 «.m* on the abore date» and thus indicate *he general circulation of the atmosphere* the wind always following the lines, changing its direction as they change, and increasing in loroo according to the amount of difference of barometer which they express. The arrows fly with the wind, which always blow# in a contrary direction to the movement of the hands of a dock round ra area of mas barometer, rad with the clock brads round a low barometer or cyclonic area. . Changes of weather ohiefly arise from the eastward progress of those latter disturbances at a rote of 880 to 600 miles in 24 boors. All local deflections of the mobabs due to the shape of the land are omitted.