EXQINOXES AND EQUINOCTIAL GALES.
Astronomically, Ihe equiuox is the moment when the sun apparently passes the celestial equator; practically, it is the time when the days and nights are of equal length. These events occur twice a year, alioul the 20th of March and of September. Autumn in New Zealand lias therefore just begun. It has long' been a popular notion that during the equinoxes strong gales are apt to he experienced, and a few days ago mention was made in the cable news of (he equinoctial gales “roaring across .France” and interfering with the military operations. Doubtless gales were experienced in France as described; but there 1 is no known reason for associating gales with the equinoxes except pure chance. The Encyclopaedia Britannica says, on this point; “This idea has no foundation in fact, for continual observations have failed to show any unusual prevalence of gales at this season. In one case, observations taken for fifty years show that during the (ive days from the 21st to 25th March and September, there were fewer gales and storms than during the preceding and succeeding live da vs.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1692, 29 March 1917, Page 2
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187EXQINOXES AND EQUINOCTIAL GALES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1692, 29 March 1917, Page 2
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