CYCLONIC STORMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 202, 8 June 1933, Page 5

CYCLONIC STORMS.

AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY AT REGULAR INTERVALS (United Press Association —Copyright). (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) VANCOUVER, June 7. Scientific apparatus for discerning weather conditions were featured at the session of the Science Congress today. - Dr. Cochino Chu (meteorologist at the Research Institute of China at Nanking) said that the use of toy balloons filled with hydrogen gas played an important part! He described the efforts made to check up the monsoon, which blows from north, to south tf&’osii China for six months of the winter, thence south to north for six months of the summer.

Dr. Kidson (New Zealand) described Australia as a. place where the 'southbound monsoon, a great river of air, 140 degrees of longitude wide, takes a return ticket to China. As in China the monsoon was disturbed in Australia by cyclones, and he reported the interesting discovery that cyclones come at regular intervals,, eight times yearly, 46 days apart. Great success had been achieved in tracking tiie path of the cyclone and it was now possible -to predict a disturbance due within a day pr two. This prediction was probably clue to the fact that the hemisphere consisted so largely of a broad expanse of level water, uninterrupted by enormous masses of land like those in the northern half of the globe. ' Experiments with balloons similar to those conducted in China, are carried out in British Columbia.