The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, November 16, 1915. GALLIPOLI'S REAL WINTER

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1473, 16 November 1915, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, November 16, 1915. GALLIPOLI'S REAL WINTER

The observer gives some interesting information as to the character of the weather that may be expected in Gallipoli when the real winter sets in. “ After January 14, or a few days latter,” he says, “ the weather is almost invariably bad ; there is always a snow blizzard, or two. generally between January 20 and 25. These are real bad blizzards, which sometimes last from three to seven days ; and after, anything in the way of weather may happen for the next six weeks or two months. The snow has been known to He six weeks. Strong southerly gales succeed, as a rule, the northerly gales, but one thing is to be noted, that the south and west winds no longer bring rain ; it is the north and north-east which bring snow and rain. This winter period is difficult to speak of with anything like precision ; nothing appears to be regular. Some years the weather is severe, other years snow is only seen once or twice. Winter is said to have finished on April 15th. The only point about a severe winter is that a period of cold is generally followed by a period of calm warm weather of ten days or so. Of late years no great cold has visited the Marmora. In 1593 the Golden Horn from the Inner bridge at Constantinople was frozen over sufficiently for people to walk over the ice. That winter, however, was an exceptional one, but even then the cold only began about January icSth, lasting into March. The great point about the climate is that, however hot or cold a spell may be, it is always succeeded by calm weather, a blue sky aud a warm sun, quite a different state of things from winter weather under English conditions. Those who have relations or friends at the Dardanelles, let them send good, strong, warm stockings for the men, besides the usual waistcoats aud mufflers; and as for creature comforts, sweets, chocolate, and tobacco, especially cigarettes. It is the Turks who will suffer from the cold ; they cannot stand it long, and being fed generally mainly on bread, they have no stamina to meet cold weather.”