WEATHER CONDITIONS

Grey River Argus, 10 June 1933, Page 3

WEATHER CONDITIONS

SCIENCE CONGRESS DISCUSSION (Au-. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) VANCOI’VEIL -Inn'' 7. Scientilic apparatus for discerning weather conditions was featured at to-day’s session of thv Science Congress. Doctor Coching Chu, mcteorlogist at the R* search Institute. China, at Nanking. said the use of toy balloons filled with hydrogen gas. played an important part. He described tin* efforts to check up the monsoon, which blows north to south across China, for six months of the winter, thence south and north for six months of the summer Dr. Kidsun (New Zealand) described Australia as a place where the southbound monsoon, a great river of air 140 degrees of longititudc 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 infrvals eight times yearly. forty-six days apart. (ir-at success had been achieved in tracking the path of the cyclone, ami it was now possible to predict a disturbance due within a day or two. This prediction was probably du“ to the- fact that th«- hemisphere consisted so largely of u broad (<xpansc of level water, uninterruple 1 by enormous land masses prevailing in th 1 ’ northern half of the Balloon experiments similar to those conducted in China are carried out in British Columbia.