He retired as a Supervising Meteorologist on 19 August 1924 but as the reader can gauge, he continued his interest and work in meteorology. In 1939 he wrote a paper on a graphical method for illustrating daily weather, especially the cloud types. The Victorian Regional Office has several thick volumes of Melbourne's weather covering many years, illustrated by this method.

Quayle was 1.83m tall, with a good sense of humour; he was a great walker and bike rider and kept himself fit well into old age. He married a school teacher, Edith Spry, and set up house in Essendon in 1890. He lived there until his death in October 1955 shortly before his 93rd birthday. Edwin Quayle had five children, eight grand-children, 16 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren. To honour his infectious love for all things meteorological, his rainfall records continued to be maintained by his family for many years

Quayle's collection of maps is now safely in the HO Library. Anyone prepared to undertake appropriate research is invited to contact Public Affairs.

Publications of E. T. Quayle

Bureau of Meteorology

• Bulletin No. 5 (1910) On the possibility of forecasting the approximate winter rainfall in northern Victoria


• Bulletin No. 10 (1915) The relation between cirrus direction as observed in Melbourne and the approach of various storm systems affecting Victoria


• 1913 co-author with H. A. Hunt and Griffith Taylor "The Climate and Weather of Australia" Bulletin No. 15 (1917) Tropical control of Australian rainfall - the influence of tropical conditions upon the development and rainfall of storms in the temperate belt and the increasing range and
  accuracy of Australian rainfall forecasts made possible by taking tins into account


• Bulletin No. 22 (1938) Australian rainfall in sunspot cycles


• Bulletin No unknown (1939) A graphical method of showing the daily weather, and especially cloud types

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria

• 1921 Possibilities of modifying climate by human agency with special application to SE Australia


• 1922 Local rain producing influences under human control in South Australia


• 1923 The increasing run-off from the Avoca River basin (due apparently to deforestation)


• 1925 Sunspots and Australian rainfall


• 1929 Long-range rainfall forecasting from tropical (Darwin) air pressure

Bureau of Meteorology