WEATHER STUDY

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1930, Page 8

WEATHER STUDY

n HOPE OF ACCURATE FORECASTS, j Dr. L. G. H. Huxley, who has arrived •> in Sydney from London, says he hopes to be able, with the aid of a direction- >. finder, to facilitate weather forecasts materially. The direction-finder is only of recent use in the study of atmospherics. Dr. Huxley is a. Tasmanian Rhodes . Scholar and is a. relative of the famous . Professor Huxley. He read physics at Oxford and took up radio research. He j does not hope to eliminate radio at-. I mospherics altogether, but lie says lie is confident of being able to reduce , them substantially. Dr. Huxley has with him an instrument that will enable him to study . meteorology and enable him to trace atmospherics to their Source, “and onco that is done,” lie says, “it. win be possible to study cause ami effect.” His hopes lie mainly along the direction of being able to accurately forecast weather conditions. Experiments have been conducted on the Continent, wlicrciyy it has ] been possible lo trace the course of 1 a. cyclone, as it. moved, merely by plotting bearings on a map. Naturally, < Dr. Huxley said, the new method willU 1 necessitate a. long and patient study* j of Australian conditions. Ij ■ Dr Huxley’s investigations will be r niade on behalf of (he Commonwealth Council of Scientific amt Industrial Research ami Im will work under th - direction of Professor Madsen, of Sydney University. Similar research work j will lie undertaken in Melbourne by f Mr. G. H. l\luuro.