WEATHER CHART.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6875, 13 March 1883, Page 3

WEATHER CHART.

March 12, 0 a.m. AVVtUkIIA. Depression along tasfc coast, with light north* west wind «t Sydneyand Hobart, and south-west at Fortlitnd. High pressure and light south-eats wind* in southern and western Australia, fin* everywhere except on south coast, where it it showery. Barometer has everywhere slightly risen sice* Saturday, and now stands—Albany, 807) Hobart, 29 8 j Portland, 28 0 t Sydney, 291).

Haw Zsalakd. During lint 48 hours everywhere gloomy and overcast, with fresh winds in the north j but calm in the south until this morning, when strong south' west gales set in at Taranaki, and south-east breese in Cook Strait with heavy rain, 3 5 inches having fallen since Saturday at Wellington, the tides being disturbed and

irregular. Barometer has fallen slightly everywhere, most in Oook Strait, where it fell three-tenths, but has already recovered onetenth. Bussell,2o 9| Wellington, 29 7 i Bluff, 80. 7 f~ I #~~"5—

This diagram shows the weather over temperate latitude! of Australia and New Zealand. The dotted linei or xsobabs oonneot equal readings of the barometer at 9 a.m. oa the above date, and thai indicate the general circulation of the atmosphere, the wind always following the lines, changing it* dircotion m they change, and increasing in force according to the amount of difference of barometer which they express. The arrows fly with the wind, whioh always blows in a contrary direotion to the moyement of the hands of a clock round an area of hioh barometer, and with the dock hands round a low barometer or oyolonio 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 ibobabjs due to the shape of the land are omitted.