WEATHER CHART.
' March 8, 9 o.m. AOBTBJU.U. , , Fine, with high pressure ever Kwtern Australia acd Tasmania; light south-east «cd north*w**Btwhi««. Barometer.—Hob&rt, 302, Portland, 301 s Sydney, 80S.
Haw Zealand. Fin* *U over, with light southerly winds and equal pressure. Barometer. Bussell, Weilinqton. and Bluff, 80-2.
Explanation. ..... , „ „ , a This diagram show* the weather over temperate of Australia and New Zealand. The dotted tinea or ZflOßAlis connect equal readings of the barometer at 9 a.m. on the above date, and thus indicate the general circulation of the atmosphere, the wind always following the tines, changing Its direction os they change, and increasing in force according to the amount of difference of barometer which they express. The arrows fly with the wind, which always blows in a contrary direction to the movement of the hands of a clock round an area of man barometer, and with the clock hands round a low barometer or cyclonic area. Changes of weather chiefly arise from the eastward progress of these latter disturbances at a rate of 800 to 600 miles in 24 hours. . All local deflections of the ibobabs due to the shape of the land are omitted.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6872, 9 March 1883, Page 3
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