STORM DETECTION BY USE OF STATIC NOW SUCCESSFUL
SAN DIEGO, Calif. Static, the bane of amateur rtylio enthusiasts, has been put to good use by the United States Navy, with installation on the U.S.S. Lexington and at Jlvo shore stations, of static observatories for the purpose of defecting storms by means of radio devices. Relationship between static and storms, it is said, has been definitely established, and has enabled navigators to locate the common types of storms —hurricanes, typhoons, ordinary barometric depressions and thunderstorms.
Heavy static, the navy claims, is frequently the omen of bad weather, and observance of static tendency together with a noting of its bearing with a radio makes it possible
to tell the direction of the storm. The use of this device is said to be effective only when tho storms give off static impulses. There are some storms that have little static effect, but it is said that hundreds of storms can be located successfully by this method.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6802, 4 January 1929, Page 12
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163STORM DETECTION BY USE OF STATIC NOW SUCCESSFUL Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6802, 4 January 1929, Page 12
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