WEATHER FORECASTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 14 October 1914, Page 4

WEATHER FORECASTS.

SIXTEEN?YEA^ AEffiAD

l^Sfe^ Wra^ 6 (eays?*hd^uck^ A land^ar) has (^mplet^ ;^a the,seasons xot Australi^iupytm^93sp these, he _ay 6i , are ?appli<»abW ta'^ fef ealand with sight ?mpdific^io_S; X owing to physical and? geographical■™**m> Jid'^^AY 1915, he says, ■. the rainfall, taking? Ajistralasia as,a. whole,will'be under XY the average. This by no : means ; im- aY , phes that there will; be ho rainY ' On '• the contrary, g<K)d, intervening raina^ will occur, and .the last part of this X, Period, will be better than the first; »v From.the middle of 1915 onwards, the&rainfall, will markedly increase, ? and X:from. 1916 to 1920, inclusive^tl__-sea-^ sons will be ? distinctly : good^ Cwitk ? abundant precipitation. Afterl92o the ;" rainfall; will begin to steadily? fall off; ?- and the worst part of /the next great ' ''v^Z&^&Y Period ?will-v be? 1923 ,and 1924. Au_tralians?will?he justified m calhngthat? a jdrought;? In 1925 - matters will hegihytb/invprove, and ■i22ft 6eart2 nst will P*****l fr«m 1926 to ; 1930. Theeei forecasts, explained Mr vyragge^ are mainly based on the physical coriditioris of the sun with respect ! to ite maxima? and? minima moods; moving in cycles of eleven years. Just now we are nearing the end of the solar minimum—or the period when the fearful cyclonic winds around the sun,, : of which we on earth had no conception, were least violent. The maximum period would commence at the end of 1915, and until then, although he did not expect the seasons to be so bad as they had been, .abnormal rains ', ■mv.st-.rot be. ati+icioated. Intervening rains in New Zealand should give a heavier fall than in Australia. In the ' droughts he predicted New Zealand would not suffer to the same extent as' ' Australia, owing to its climate being insular, whereas that of the latter was continental.?:

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