MR. WRAGGE'S FORECASTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14069, 24 May 1909, Page 6

MR. WRAGGE'S FORECASTS.

Mb. Clement L. Wraggk writes f rdri Taumarunui as follows: seene that some people are fogged about' tie boundaries covered by the named atnJospheric disturbances. Will you kindly (llow me to enlighten them?. Take 'Mud of"redoubtable: fame and prowess, Especially in the South Island. Well-lthc name applies to the whole disturbing system, and thus not only embraces /he trough, or hollow, of the low, or cjlionic, pressure, but also the stoep-gra|ient isobars of the adjoining or anticyclonic, or high pressure iffstem., Positives and negatives govcrjf the cosmos, and when one sees unusual development at the apex or centre of aft anti-cyclone, there must be a corresponding energy 'in the cyclone, for. the twy systems each maintain the other. Frequently-villain-ous little subsidiary, ok satellite, disturbances may be "flung off hen the main system strikes th<j< land, and; it takes the weather man? 11 his time to watch their vagaries, Mich are modified or increased by the potent factors of physical geography. -■■' I?noted : a while ago that the ; new Comma wealth meteorologist negatived the value of ,an Antarctic observatory fitted wi|h 'wireless," as recommended by ! Prof|ssor David, and as advised iby myself /'hen in Queensland many years ago." The worth of such would be incalculable to the science of Australasian meteoißogy—and my young and new confrere fin Australia assumes an attitude that aiiazes me. Professor David is right, ifid knows what he is talking about;" J , "