PREDICTING STORMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14657, 26 January 1912, Page 6

PREDICTING STORMS.

DEVELOPMENTS IN WEATBESFOKGCASTTnG. TIRELESS AS AN ADJUNCT. Whib in Australia. Mr t> C. Bates. Dominion Mofeoroiogi'sfc, enquired into certain meteorological matters. "I find," ho told a Wellington "EToaing Post" reporter, "that the.ro ' tn7o Wan great d'evelniwiipnts, dur'ng the past three- years. "It is probable that iibnut i'u'O.OL'O !ias brm .silent in instruments alone during thai, "jxjriorl, and tlie stalls have h:-on £reat!v ir ; - trended, the results thornuyhSv iurtif.ving these steps. Still sii-eater tilings are erected in the futiirf. and the new captal site will bo the centrefrom which these developments will cmannte. Mr H. A. Hunt, Commonwealth Metroroinrdst, intends to establish, an observatory for the 'special study of solar physics, and preparations ara already beinc: mads in "that direction. At "Melbourne everr op- i portunifcj- was a/forded, mo of k?riw- I th? system and eaninment of the Oral- i monwealth Bureau. I also visited th.' i State Jiuroau, \nnler the d:i-'-doi'->] of- I ficor, air Stewart Wikon. This oh- ' serratory is now of secondary import- i num. Others I raw were "at New- I castle and V/amia One thin™ that struck me very "forcibly was the | ulse of rainfall mans and toW ; -; :lvl r. i and aLso sheets showing the rainfall for crery day in the venr at o;\--h nlnoo 1 :»m sure we t mild do much in lir'.s I diroction, and I krow our post ll ; nd | telegraph aiiihorit.V; are .niy 100 | | anxious to do all in t-liHr rower to ! as;ist. I hope mv vis : t will -jrnw no- I fit-iblo, for I h:ve reined in iVnitfrl i fields,; where many good' and clover I

I men are devoting their lives vs rre.-ts . of science to the study of tho weaI ther.'' -Mr Ijates's experience has r:veal .0 a new v.zo for v.-ireles3 telegraphy, w!u:.li, he sav.s, opens up great i;.'si. hi ittes in weather foroMstir.g. A; i'uo telegraph made possihlo synoptic ■charts, or. which weather fore.i-i.sts nit ln-.sfd. so- wo may oxnect sfcill iuMh-ei aovan.es from wiroke.s '-The wrathcr," er.ul tho Dor.vmon Meteor uoecso, "depends upon the movements of !o.v and high pressure areas or <>- paii-u res from tho norii.al. For in-Et'.nr-c. it 1 fB-t a barometrical ivac-m" of 30.50 at VTo!! In gt.cn and 29 00 from i ii shin at sea fciirii',' towards Xcw Zealand from tho west T. should know that wo would hnvo a severe o\t!onc with northerly gales. A knnwb-'-lgu o) wliat is hapoeu-ng on tho sea whore strrms Ircv, 1. develop, and .lisaoite. wr.uld ho o? theaitmost Value in mkiporoiog'ists an;! aclcl materially t.i the value of tho dailv i-cdicih.ns. We nro J2TO miles from the nearest observatories, and estimation of the eo'irse. dovolnpm nt. and duration <-f storms is a most irenoriant desidoi-v tnm in our work. V have i-o \'. nut that the steamshio companies will gladly fid! into ro an-ame-m-nt ti: i snonH- sn h informa- inn <!:nlv to the I vrious hnroaiiTc, and the s-c'r-oti'-v of j Hi- Post and IV.n-ii-tii'mt. IMr Donald "Roherisoni has' :.. r:\riv I a:' Ton jo" izrr-at n,-q:ra.™-!irat to de- ! tho a-tfvirvc-.-. in -this .lir.-'-t. o-i. iwhiV. the M\irhin D-mriiient ha = nl-'V-nvl mo' to/vpply "a few Te'Hdo . hiromofers --- s our r-oi <f.-in:l e'-d 10 I steamers oqu : rp"d w- r th wireless." | Look ! This is from tho renort of I the hi !: C'o-Ui-eimroli v-nol sale ?,..;,] reecntlv : "The competition of tjift ! Dominion mills for tho floor qnalii-ios j was a strong far-tor towards, forcing j values to a hijr'n level." That means : more monov in the mekefs if nil el sses of producers. Tim- KAIAim Goods and lielp to make times R00d....