THE LAW OF STORMS.
The general character of storms over the whole globe seems (says an English contemporary) to be revolving and rolling forward at the same time; the prevailing direction of European sturms being from South-west to North-east, from the British Isles towards Norway and Denmark, dying out in the Baltic Sea. Storms in Europe from North to South, or from West to South-east are of rare occurrence. !The average range of the Barometer in the higher Latitudes (60°—50°) is about I*s inches, but on extraordinary occasions ranges of 2-75 and 3 inches have been recorded. In the intertropical regions, the range varies from o'4 to 0-2 inches, and in the neighbourhood of the Equator it seldom exceeds 015 inches ; this small change being in great part due to a regular diurnal variation. The average movement of the barometer, within the Tropics, being thus confined within Small limits, any interruption to the la.w may be deemed a warning of the approach of bad weather. The fall of the Barometer in hurricanes ranges from 1-0 to 2'o and even to 2'5 inches; the rapidity of the fall and the depression of the mercury increases as the Centre of the storm approaches.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1101, 10 April 1880, Page 3
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