 | John Lort Stokes - Australia - 1846 - 610 pages
...such as, the change of the current, which, (owing to the prevailing southerly winds,) usually sets to the northward, but runs strong to the southward...to be from the northward,) is the strength of the NE winds — as it has been observed, that when the land winds blow strong, particularly from the NE... | |
 | John Lort Stokes - Australia - 1846 - 586 pages
...such as, the change of the current, which, (owing to the prevailing southerly winds.) usually sets to the northward, but runs strong to the southward...to precede all gales from that quarter — this, of coursr, can only be observed while at anchor on the coast. Another, and perhaps equally certain sign... | |
 | Henry Piddington - Marine meteorology - 1848 - 432 pages
...ran with the same velocity to the NE" He also describes a Storm-wave, or rise of the water, p. 722. " A rising of the water is likewise a certain prognostic...can only be observed while at anchor on the coast" strongly felt. The sets of current along the Coromandel Coast are very well known, and at the approach... | |
 | Henry Piddington - Marine meteorology - 1848 - 352 pages
...ran with the same velocity to the NB" He also describes a Storm-wave, or rise of the water, p. 722. " A rising of the water is likewise a certain prognostic of a Northerly wind, and has 6een invariably noticed at Swan River to precede all gales from that quarter : this of course can only... | |
 | William Reid - Hurricanes - 1849 - 454 pages
...wind, such as the change of the current, which (owing to the prevailing southerly winds) usually sets to the northward, but runs strong to the southward...weather, during the winter season (and which is almost cer- CH 4 P, tain to be from the northward), is the strength of the north-east XV. winds, As it has... | |
 | Henry Piddington - Cyclones - 1851 - 430 pages
...ran with the same velocity to the NE" He also describes a Storm-wave, or rise of the water, p. 722. " A rising of the water is likewise a certain prognostic...can only be observed while at anchor on the coast." It is evident that the " rise of water" is the effect of the distant Storm-wave, and that it at once... | |
 | Henry Piddington - Hurricanes - 1869 - 458 pages
...with the same velocity to the NE" He also describes a Storm- wave, or rise of the water, p. 722. " A rising of the water is likewise a certain prognostic...Swan River to precede all gales from that quarter j this of course can only be observed while at anchor on the coast." It is evident that the " rise... | |
 | Henry Piddington - Storms - 1889 - 448 pages
...ran with the same velocity to the NB" He also describes a Storm-wave, or rise of the water, p. 722. " A rising of the water is likewise a certain prognostic...Northerly wind, and has been invariably noticed at Swan Kiver to precede all gales from that quarter ; this of course can only be observed while at anchor... | |
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... barometer always foretells their approach, and generally begins to fall three or four days before the commencement of the gale — besides which, there are other never-failing indications of a northerly wind, such as, the change of the current, which,... 