WEATHER FORECASTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19512, 10 June 1933, Page 5

WEATHER FORECASTS

INTERESTING STORY OF THE MONSOON.

United Press Association—By Electrla Telegraph—Copyright VANCOUVER, June 7.

A scientific apparatus for discerning weather conditions featured to-day's session of the Science Congress.

Dr. Cochinv Chu, of the Meteorologist Research Institute. China, at Nankin, said the use of toy balloons, filled with hydrogen gas played an important part. He described the efforts to check up the monsoon, which blows north to south across China for six months of the winter, thence south to north for six months of summer. Dr. Kidson (New Zealand) described Australia as a place where the southbound monsoon was a great river of air, 140 degrees of longitude wide, which takes a return ticket to China. As in China, the monsoon was disturbed in Australia by cyclones. He reported the interesting, discovery that cyclones would come at regular intervals eight times yearly, 46 days apart. Great success had been achieved in tracking the path of the cyclone, and it was now possible to predict when a disturbance was due within a day or two. This prediction was probably due to the fact that the hemisphere consisted so largely of a broad expanse of level water, uninterrupted by the enormous land masses prevailing in the northern half of the globe. The balloon experiments, similar to those conducted in China, ate carried out at British Columbia.