FORETELLING WEATHER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 21 December 1907, Page 4

FORETELLING WEATHER.

In 1913 the weather will be as it was in rS7 S or thereabouts 1 , Professor K. A. (Gregory, cf Oneen’s College, London, notes that the cyele of thi'ty live years shown by a solar phenomena cortesponds exactly with a cycle of weather changes on this earth ol ours. Professor K. Bruckner, discovered some few years ago that there is a periodic variation in climate over the whole earth, the average length being about thirty-live years. No matter what weather observations are examined, in the tropics or in polar regions, a variation in a cycle of thirty-five years can be detected in them. Rainfall, pressure and temperature, the movement of • ■ equency of severe ' he height of rivers, lakes m 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 1913, just as it was thirty-years ago—in the seven lies of the last century On the average we may expect that during the next ten years the pressure will be below the normal.