THE WEATHER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6701, 10 May 1883, Page 4

THE WEATHER.

EXPLANATION OF THE CHART. This dUcram shows the weather over temperate latitudes in Australia and Naw Zealand. The dotted lines or ISOB AKi connect equal readings of the barometer at 9 a.m. on the above date, and tnus indicate the general circulation of the atmosphere, the wind alway? following these lines, clanging its direction as 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 the area of mon barometer, and with the clock hands round a low barometer or cyclonic area. Chances of weather chiefly arise from the eastward progress of these latter disturbances, at the rate of SOO to 800 miles In 24 hours. All local deflections of the Isobars, due to the shape of the land, are omitted. SYNOPSIS OF THE WEATHER. New Zealand : In the South gloomy and overcast, and pressure decreasing, N.W. winds, still light: Easerly in the North ; Easterly swell at Timaru. Australia : Low area passed Eastward • high pressure now geneia', with light Westerly winds ; passing showers at Sydney and Portland. Barometers : New Zealand— Kussell, 30*2; Wellington, 30-1; Bluff, 2D 8. Australia—Albany, 30"3 ; Portland, 301; Hobart, 29"9; Sydney, 30*2.