Weather Disturbances

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 26, 10 January 1930, Page 4

Weather Disturbances

Radio Held Blameless ADIO. broadcasting has been cleared of the often-heard charge of causing disturbances in the weather by Joseph Sanson, French meteorologist and engineer. In an exhaustive ‘study of records covering French wea-: ther during the last two hundred. years Sanson found that the same atmospheric irregularities that prevail today puzzled the citizens of France long before the Revolution. ~ As a matter of fact, meteorologists for some years have branded as a popular fallacy the belief that radio affects the weather. The notion became so widespread, however, that scientists deemed it necessary to make an investigation. The fact is that, compared with the enormous quantities of °similar electrical energy released constantly into the atmosphere by thunderstorms, the ether vibrations from all the broadcasting stations in the world combined form less than the proverbial drop in the bucket. But the weather, as all radio enthusiasts know, does affect broadcas(f¥\e. Static, for example, is the voice of @rtain types of weather. It may be cats-’ ed by lightning, snow, or rainstornis, and has been traced to advancing heat and cold waves. Sun spots and other solar irregularities also interfere with radio transmission, any