Weather Forecasts

Press, Volume C, Issue 29679, 24 November 1961, Page 3

Weather Forecasts

f Sir. Your correspondent, Alfred Batten, inquiring about “Cyclone,” must have a long memory. It is more I than a few years since I pub- . lished any attempts at long--1 range forecasts. They must, . apparently, have made some t impretsion. I am afraid I ■ cannot promise anything fur- , ther immediately. A good : deal of time and labour is int volved and I am a busy man L of varied interests. It hapf pens, however, that I have • been thinking just lately, inr spired partly by the unusual ! series of north-westers, of r writing a general account of ; the history of attempts at ! long-distance feather fore- ! casts. It is an interesting 1 story. The attempts have ranged from the “scientific” ; through the unorthodox but , defensible to those that would t raise sceptical eyebrows and > down-the-nose looks, if they j attracted any attention at ail. > They have all been inspired j by the general dissatisfaci tion with the limitations of - day-to-day forecasts and > their variable reliability. , Allow me to thank our corcorespondent for his interest and to promise something further at an early date.— r Yours .etc., • CYCLONE. November 24. 1961.