Volume 01: Production and resources of the northern and western districts of New South Wales, 1854 [ca. 1850-1857] - Page 645
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NEW SOUTH WALES
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
RAIN
Total quantities of rain registered as fallen with the respective number
SOUTH HEAD PORT JACKSON
YEAR | SEASONS | INCHES | TOTAL INCHES | TOTAL |
1842 | (SUMMER (WINTER |
23.30) 25.12) |
= 48.320 in 73) 64) |
= 137 |
1843 | (SUMMER (WINTER |
24.66) 38.12) |
= 62.780 in 80) 88) |
= 168 |
1844 | (SUMMER (WINTER |
47.811) 22.859) |
= 70.670 in 77) 80) |
= 157 |
1845 | (SUMMER (WINTER |
28.427) 38.598) |
= 62.025 in 66) 66) |
= 132 |
1846 | (SUMMER (WINTER |
21.795) 22.038) |
= 42.033 in 68) 71) |
= 139 |
287.628 inches in | in 733 days |
Out of and comprehending a period of five years or 1826 days; which produces an average of nearly four tenths of an inch per day, or 157 of an inch daily throughout the year.
A survey of the register discovers that much of the greatest proportion of rain viz(about two third parts of the whole) has fallen whilst the [wind] has been in the South East, South West quarter, [illegible] of this greater proportion from South east,
- South Strzelecki, in his work use New South Wales has stated it as a fact (gathered from numerical data) that rain is more plentiful in New South Wales than in Van diemen's Land; and observes, that both the colonies, as compared with England, have been shown to receive a larger amount of rain than London. So celebrated for its humidity, which, according to Professor Daniell, has an average quantity of 22.19 inches, , whereas the average of five years in New South Wales amounts to 57.52 inches annually.
But when we compare the fall of rain in Port Jackson with that of the mountainous districts of England, the former links with insignificance.
The greatest fall here viz 70.67 inches in 1844 is less than the quantity which fell in 1845 at Seawaite, in Borrowdale, Cumberland, by 81.2 inches; the fall there, according to observations conducted by J H Miller Esq having been 151.87 inches.