Says Equinoctial Gales Mot Fallacy
The view of an encyclopaedia that “the supposed prevalence of stormy weather at the equinoxes is unauthenticated by careful observation,” is disputed lay a Whangarei man, who for a number of years made a careful study of the weather. As meteorological observer at the Seminary at Greenmeadows, Hawke’s Bay, he says that a marked increase in the velocity of the wind was noticeable in March and September. Records proved that gales occurred in relation to the changes of season in New Zealand, and mariners would confirm this. The encyclopaedia may have been correct in its reference to equinoctial gales being a fallacy in the Northern Hemisphere, but such was decidedly not the case in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Northern Advocate, 18 September 1939, Page 9
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