WIRELESS AND WEATHER

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5305, 27 July 1928, Page 2

WIRELESS AND WEATHER

DOES IT MAKE IUJN ?

NOT ENOUGH ELECTRIC ENERGY.

“From time to time new explanations ai’e put forward to account for heavy on long continued rainfall, and one which has enjoyed great favour is wireless. With all this electricity about, say the unthinking no wonder we have had such a wet winter !” states; “My Magaziite.” “People who think a little longer or a little; farther back can see that this explanation will not do. The wettest summer in the nineteenth century was in 1879, before there were ©ven 'telephones in any great number, an’ not. many people Used electric bells. The rain that ; raiiieth every day was known to Shakespeare, who -no doubt lived through a ’number of very wet years and very dry ones as well. Nevertheless, there are other believers whose little knowledge of science is a dangerous thing, and who can And an electrical explanation which is a little more advanced- It is well known that, a discharge of electricity will calls© droplets of water, vapour to cling togetter or to cohere. Therefore, say these reasoners, it seems possible that when every wirejess station in Europe is radiating away electric lenergv some of it causes the vapour particles in the clouds to coalesce and fall as rain. So far from this being possible, or, even probable, it is 'impossible. All the electric energy dissipated by all the wireless stations of the world would not be enough to start one shower.”