A NEW WEATHER THEORY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 357, 20 February 1880, Page 17

A NEW WEATHER THEORY.

Rev. Henry Koe, of England, sends to the London Times a new theory of the weather. He claims to have determined by careful observations, covering nearly thirty years, that dry and wet periods succeed one another in alternate waves of nearly equal length. Not that this equality of duration is quite absolute, or that the wave of one period is exactly the samefac simile of that of a corresponding period at an earlier or a later time ; but there is enough of regularity and uniformity about the waves to make the family likeness clearly discernible to any eye that looks for it. These periods extend over three whole years for each, and the following simple rules will enable \ul °?u t0 work out the several cycles of years for himself : 1. When the number representing any given year is even and exactly divisible by three, that year is the middle one of three cold and wet BMmm^er8 M mm^ ers 'i. 2< When ttie number representing the year is odd and divisible by three, then that year is the middle one of a triad of dry and hot summers. After testing by these rules the successive seasons of the past twenty-seven years, and finding the fact to conform to theory, a * P redicts that 1881 will be the middle one in a triad of hot and dry summers. What relations these dry and wet periods have (if any) to the recognised cycles of sun spots he has not made out ; nor does any examination of recent seasons confirm the alleged harmony of theory with fact.