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| 1897 | Dec. | 26th, 10.30 a.m. |
Onslow | Travelled from Onslow to Eucla, 30th |
Port Headland, 5.9″; Condon, 5.3″; Onslow, 2″; To- wara, 6.5″ |
Minimum barometer, 28.57; wrecked Onslow. Terminated a hot spell in Victoria on 31st |
| 1898 | Apl. | 2nd, 5 p.m. | Cossack | From Wyndham 29th; through Derby and Broome, 30th; to Cossack |
Bamboo Creek, 16″; Whim Creek, 36″; Cossack, 15″ |
Wind at Cossack (at maximum of gale) as a hurricane from east, evidently towards deep barometric depressions at sea; s.s. Albany, 27.8 All boats in creek at Cossack, except police boat, wrecked |
| 1899 | Jan. | 12th | Off Wyndham (see map) |
Along coast to Condon, then recurved and traced to Tasmania |
Marble Bar, 7″; Nullagine, 9″; Mt. Margaret, 3″, on 16th |
s.s. Tangier encountered "willy-willy" on 12th off the N.W. coast |
| 1900 | Mar. | 5th, at 3.15 p.m. |
Cossack | Along coast from N.E., passed inland south of Cossack, and then crossed the gold- fields to the Bight |
Wyndham, 3″; Derby, 5″, 3rd and 4th; Marble Bar, 6″, 6th; Cossack, 8″, 6th; Cue, 1½″, 9th; Laverton, 2″, 10th; Whim Creek, 13″, on 5th and 6th |
Minimum barometer, 29.34. Hurricane from S.W., not so disastrous as previous cases. 13″ of rain fell at Whim Creek, near Cossack, on the 5th and 6th. The value of these violent disturbances in bringing rain to the interior is obvious |
| 1900„ | Mar.„ | 6th, at 8 a.m. | Onslow (see map) | |||
| 1901 | Jan. | 30th | s.s. Australind, south of Java |
Storm travelling W.S.W. | Ship hove to. Barometer 29.36. A very interesting hurricane, for its course at sea can be traced from re- ports of the Australind | |
| 1901„ | Feb. | 7th | Cossack | Approaching coast from W. | Port Hedland, 13″; Peak Hill, 3″, 8th; Eastern Gold-fields, 3″, on 9th |
Barometer at Condon, 28.78. Ap- parently same storm as above |
| 1902 | Feb.„ | 9th, at 12.30 p.m. |
Cossack„ | Travelled along the coast from Wyndham to Cossack, thence inland to Coolgardie and Eyre |
Hall's Creek, 4″, 2nd to 6th; La Grange, 7″, 4th-8th; Condon, 7″, 9th-10th; Peak Hill, 3″, 10th-11th; Men- zies, 3″, on 11th |
Barometer, 29.03, was the minimum re- corded at Cossack. "Willy-willy" did a good deal of damage at Cossack. Prior to the rains the clouds in the in- terior were moving from N. to N.W. |
| 1903 | Jan. | 10th | Off East Kimber- ley Coast |
Recurved north of Broome on 16th; passed inland just touching east of gold-fields; thence to South Australia |
Wyndham, 25″, 9th to 13th; Turkey Creek, 10″; Hall's Creek, 6″; Quanbun, 2″; Menzies, 1.7″, on 19th |
Wind not so severe as usual. Barometer only fell to 29.65 |
| 1904 | Apl. | 17th | Off Broome, 30 hours |
Broome, 5.5″; Yeada, 8″ | Schooner Star of the West wrecked |
