WEATHER INSTRUMENT
FOUND AFTER 24 YEARS. Carried into the upper air 24 years ago, an automatic weather-recording instrument disappeared completely until recently, when it was found, half buried in sand, in California. It was one of 23 meteorographs, attached to sounding balloons, which were sent up from the Pacific Coast in 1913 by the United States Weather Bureau to record conditions in the higher levels of the atmosphere. Fifteen of tjiem, dropping after the balloons had burst, were recovered, and the recent discovery makes the number 16. The other seven instruments have never been found. Except for a few dents, the all-metal instrument was still in good condition, after a quarter of a century, and many of its recordings could still be deciphered. The temperature record shows that the balloon carried the instrument tn a height of over 13 miles, and that a temperature as low as 71 degree- Wmw zero was registered.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2671, 17 September 1937, Page 3
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153WEATHER INSTRUMENT Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2671, 17 September 1937, Page 3
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