THE WEATHER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6827, 4 October 1883, Page 4

THE WEATHER.

EXPLANATION OF THE CHART This dUgram eh-mm the -weather over temperate latitudes In Australia and New Zealand. The Jotted lines or isobar.- connect equal readings of the barometer at 9 a-m. on the above date, and thus indicate the general eircnlstion of the atmosphere, the wind alway following these ilnei, changing Its direction as they change, unci increasing in force according to the unount of difference of barometer which they express. The arrows Sy with the wind, Yjhict , always blows in a contrary direction to the movement of the hands of a clock, round the area of aion barometer, and with the clock hands round a low barometer or cyclonic &rea. Changes of weathdr chieSy arise from tie eastward progress of these latter disturbances, at the rate ol! 300 to 500 miles in 24 hours. All local deflections of the Isobars, due to the shape of the land, are omitted. * SYNOI'SIS OF THE WEATHER. New Zealand ■ Fine all over ; genera! increase of pressure, especially In North : Westerly winds. Australia • Ul<h jireii.ure area over S.E. of AusriUa and Tasmania: fine weather, with. N.W. and West winds. Barometers: New Zealand—Russell,3o3; Wellinuton and Bluff, 30U • Australia—Albany, 29-9; Hobart, Portland, and Sydney, 30"2.