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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 190, 28 August 1937, Page 11

Carried into the upper air twentyfour years ago, an automatic weatherrecording instrument disappeared completely nntil recently, whe'n it was fqund,^ half buried in sand, in California, U.S.A. It was one of twentythree meteorographs, attached to soun'ding balloons, which were sent up from tho Pacific voast in 1913 by the IT.S. Weather^ Bureau, to record conditions i?. .J'k® higher levels of the atmosphere. Fixteen of them, dropping to earth after the balloons had burst, were recovered, and tho reccnt discovery makes the number sixteen. The other seven instrumenta have never been ibund, Excpt for a fe wdents, the allmetal instrument was still in good condition after a quarter of a century, and many of its recordings could still be deciphered. The temperature record shous that tho baloon carx'ied tho weather instrument to a height of over thirteen niiles, and that a temperature as low as soveuty-one degreea below zero was eucoutered. Many recording instruments' in greatly improved form, havo been sent up siuco 1913, and have gathored data of great value in forecustinjj "weather couditions.