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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17295, 5 November 1921, Page 5

The hamming noise made by a group of telegraph wires is familiar to almost and there is a variety planatioiis of the phenomenon A .W man scientist recently claimed had discovered that the weather c»ul* be predicted twenty-foui-*M£*g hours in advance by .o^* 1 ™ I S£. sounde made by these wire*. In particular, rain, snow, and storms can De foretold with considerable certaJity* winter the tones are considerably £&* than in the summer, since *«/: jwwoii is increased by the cold. T WliT „f notes precede heavy but brief JaJ £ £ rain or snow, while deep humming toneindicate rainfalls whicn are both onei and light. Buzzing tone* indicate a change in the weather: indefinite, sort. ■Humming tones of medium strenptn hi dicate a longer continuance; ot aamy .voather. It is naturally difficult to describe the tonei with precision m mere .vords. Thov must be heard repeatedly in order that the mind may form consciously or subconsciously an idea, o the weather condition to which they correspond,