A LONG CYCLE
, The most rhafKed weather cycle of all takes. 152 years to complete. Halbert Gillette, an American meteorologist, who.has spent many years in studying weather problems, has just reached this conclusion. He claims to have'found evidence • all over the globe. .He, studied rainfall .records, Nile'floods, tree rings,1 clay deposited in Canada by,the retreat of the last ice sheet, and ice deposits in Finland, I among other-things. Recent droughts, says Gillette, are due to the coincidence of minima of a number of long rainfall cycles. ' ". .
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Evening Post, Issue 79, 2 April 1936, Page 6
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86A LONG CYCLE Evening Post, Issue 79, 2 April 1936, Page 6
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