8 out of the 11 years are above normal pressure, and a similar proportion below normal temperature. The Adelaide records agree as regards pressure, but disagree altogether as regards temperature, only 4 out of the 11 being years colder than the average.
From a seasonal forecast point of view, the Melbourne temperature figures for the first three months are very interesting, and suggest the possibility of using them to forecast the character of the following nine, no less than 25 out of 33 being below the average. The Adelaide temperatures suggest a similar possibility, though not so strongly, only 20 of them being below and 13 above normal. As regards pressure, Melbourne suggests nothing, but Adelaide shows 23 above to 10 below normal for the first three months.
Similar data for Alice Springs show that, as at Adelaide, pressure and temperature are generally above normal for the drought years as a whole.
