FORETELLING WEATHER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8942, 17 December 1907, Page 6

FORETELLING WEATHER.

In 1013 the weather will be as it was in 1878 or thereabouts. Professor E. A. Gregory, of Queen's College, London, notes that the cycle of thirty-five years shown by solar phenomena corresponds exactly with a cycle of weather changes on this earth of ours. Professor E. Bruckner, discovered some few years ago that there is a periodic variation in climate over the whole earth, the average length being about thirty-five years. No matter what weather observations are examined, in the tropics or in polar regions, a variation iv a cycle of thirty-five years can be detected iv them. Rainfall, pressure and temperature, the movement of glaciers, frequency of severe winters, or the height of rivers, lakes or inland seas, all vary year by year. But, neglecting individual years, it is found that these conditions for about seventeen years are below the average, while for the next seventeen they are above it. Taking several years together, it is believed, that the rainfall will be more than usual until about the year 15)13, just as it was thirty-five years ago—in the seventies of the last century. On the average we may expect that during the next ten years the pressure will be* below the normal.