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TUESDAY, MAR. 10, 1936.
FEARS AND HOPES
Despite the anxieties aroused
WEATHER
by BASIL MURRAY
LONDON. 22inches of ram per year
CRKVICE-Charo -WETTEST PLACE IN EUROPE.
· Randall 183 15. penyet.
VERKHOAINGK,
Gibana
IS THE GOLDEDT PLACE -Hara, aplit thermometre recorded $4°F. An X, 7833
LOP NOR-GautİZ Kaw£10m Travellers have found By, keporature here vary by 130° between midnight v midday,
CHERRAPUNJI-Assam. Randall 424 ins. per yer
MARSHALL 15. (chopora)
There are only 29 FINE DAYS
A YEAR HERE.
JOWA I NEBRASKA Where during
fomado WiND'SPID REACHED Mossy 40ONAN
LOUISIANA-USA. When blew or [140MP.N.Scpl, 1915
AZIZIA-THI POLI- High share temperajui over recorded) 155*
DEBUNDSCHA - CAMLETENES WETTEST PLACE IN AFINLA Free nonkill-370 IS.
WADI HALKA Î
·SUDAN- Where: Hue um gauge menfured NOTHING from_TACH
to 1900
MOUNT WAILCALE
-Hawaiian islands-
In both 1914 2 11g over
600 03 of rain fell here.
CHILI
In the north it. NEVER RAINts
AT ALL
In the south -near Cape Horn · 17 13 30 WET
THAT NATIVES
OWNNOT LIGHT NAES
ISLAND of the EVANGELISTS
- 17 rams here on. 317 DAYS out of the 365
WHY do we always blame
the weather?
This month it is the cold
by the new developments in spell that is the chief object
Europe, it is reassuring to feel that, so far as Britain is con-of attack. In two or three cerned, there is no evidence of months it will be the humi- panic. Rather, the tendency is dity.
to seek ways and means of turn- Actually, our weather, special. ing the situation to the greatest ly now, is perfect compared with possible advantage. Germany's other parts of the world. Chancellor would have been a man of little discernment were The not aware that the presenta- tion of the fail accompli in the Rhineland would bring a storm of protest from the French. He Orchestra..would be a miin of remarkably little imagination did he not per- ceive that the moving of his battalions into the demilitarised would rouse alarm in zone French hearts and possibly set
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Next time you feel like cursing the Hongkong climate go to the Royal observatory at Kowloon and have a talk with the experts in the Meteo- rological Office.
"After half an hour's conver- sation you will thank heaven that you live where you do. For instance;
WINDIEST PLACE in the WORLD "ADELIK LAND- on the Antare Continent HERE IT BLOWS A FULL CAIR
ALL THE YEAR Reimers
The average rainfall in Hong- kong amounts to about eighty- five inches a year.
Compare this with the platenu of Cherrapunji, in the hills of Assum
The average rainfall there, as measured on the official gange, which is not in the wettest part of the district, is 424 inches a
year,
It is 4.000 feet high, with precipices of 2,000 feet on each side.
The south-west wind sweeping over the wet river plain below is turned abruptly upwards by, the cliffs and discharges its mois ture on the hill-top.
In one month at Cherrapunji, in the year 1841, 264 inches of rain fell, there being more than
the French military machine in NOTES OF THE DAY thirty inches on live successive
concern
2
4
Region of PERPETUAL FOG. There are a lords have used by the scalera- that no man has ever seen.
bodies of Spaniards have been found there, in perfect preserva- tion after hundreds of years, em- balmed by the dry heat.
South-West Africa, Upper Egypt, and Central Australia are the other great dry spots on the map.
At Wadi Halfa, in the Sudan, the rain gauge measured nothing from 1891 to 1900.
Drops of moisture were felt on twenty-two days, but not on
one in either 1895 or 1898.
Having escaped drowning and freezing there is always the chance of being blown away.
But despite our typhoons, we do not know what wind is in the Colony.
A gale is any wind with a velocity of thirty-nine m.p.h. or more,
2
We may experience half dozen in a year. In America hurricanes of 150 m.p.h. and more occur regularly,
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the
The scientific difficulties of The hot places of the earth measuring very high winds are are not necessarily the same as great. The pressure exerted by the dry. There are two ways a wind is proportional to of recording temperature with square of its speed, and becomes the dry thermometer or the wet. se terrific in a hurricane that the instruments are nearly al- The wet thermometer is a piece of damp cloth
fastened ways wrecked. over the top of a tube of mercury.
The moisture of the cloth days.
There are other spots almost evaporales and lowers the tem-
perature in the tube, Mount Wailcule, in the as wet. Hawaiian Islands, is known in the United States AS "Uncle THE game process is always Sam's dampest corner."
going on in the human body, and in consequence the wet thermomoter is the best criterion of how a given climate will affect men.
In both 1914 and 1916 it has been calculated that over 600 inches of rain fell on the wind- ward slopes of this mountain.
The wetfest place in Africa is Debundscha, in the Cameroons, plantation at the foot of the Cameroon peak, where there is an annual fall of nearly 370
quite different in type and inches.
purpoke.
average
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There are only two places in the world where wet thermome- ter temperatures of 100deg. F have been recorded. One is Kamaran Island, in the Red Sen. the other on the coast of Sierra
Leone.
per-
THE higest figure ever record- ed in an anemometer, or wind-measuring instrument, was 140 m.p.h. in Louisiana at the mouth of the Mississippi on. September 29, 1915, but much higher wind-speeds have been deduced by calculation.
.
During a tornado in lówn and Nebraska in 1913 soft objects struck harder objects with such force as 10 penetrate them, and engineers calculated that the speed of impact must have been close to 400 m.p.h.
On this occasion a cart weigh.
ing 600lbs, was whirled into the
air.
But the windiest place on the
Pole. In Adelie Lnad on the map is far away, near the South
Antarctic continent a full gale blows all the year round.
On one day in 1912 the wind never dropped below ninety m.ph.. and for a whole month it was more than sixty m.ph.
In Hongkong, the highest wind velocity, recorded was 108
on the night of July 29, 1896,
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motion. And we know, from the experience of 1914, that once"TALKING BOOKS" started, the mechanism of mobi-
A "Talking Book" Library for lisation is very hard to stop. It the blind has been established in gathers speed and strength as London. It has been set up, after it runs, until, like an avalanche to years investigation and re- that catches up grenter weight search, by the Sound Recording, with its greator velocity, it is Committee. body jointly re finally irresistible. It takes presenting the National, Institute more than a word of command for the Blind, St. Dunstan's Hospi- to quiet the machine; fortal for the Blind, and the National Library for the Blind. The mobilisation is not a purely Library will either sell or lend the mechanical thing, but something "books, as well as the specially of a spiritual force as well. adapted gramophones. They will Herr Hitler must have realised in no way compete with the Braille the danger when he ordered his books for purposes of study, as they troops into the Rhineland, with-are
Hongkong
· with out warning of any kind. . But
compared The machine bed is a gramo-!
If you had been at either of The must also have felt very sure
phone with a motor that causes these places is a dry area.. Even
the days in that this sort of diplomacy would he turn-table to revolve slowly Europe has much "damper" car- those places on succeed, and that it would not at 24 revolutions
a minute, com- ners, such as the unpronounce- question you would have had a precipitate violence, or he wouldpared with, the 78 revolutions of able town of Crkvice, on the fever however much you surely not have pulled Fate by the standard gramophone. The Gulf of Cattaro, which averages spired. the nose with so little apparent result is that each side of a twelve- 183 inches.
The highest shade tompern- inch for the consequences.
record gives twenty-five
But the places where the rain ture ever recorded was at Azizin And it is this thought that minutes' reading, and a novel of makes us hopeful in this crisis. records. The list of talking books those where it rains most often.
length will go on eight is heaviest are not necessarily in Tripoli on September 13, 1922, when the mercury rose to 186 Looking at the situation calm- either ready or in preparation now
deg. F. Death Valley, California, ly, it would, as we remarked Includes
The world's worst spot for has come within 2deg. of this. over sixty titles. The yesterday, be foolish to overlook choice of subjects and authors has picnics is Jaluit, in the Marshall
These figures compare with a the constructive aspects of the followed upon much discussion and Islands, which Japan adminis- German gesture, particularly the careful consideration of a number ters under a League of Nations maximum in Hongkong of 97 miles per hour during a typhoon
degrees on August 19, 1900. offer of re-entry into the League of factors. The selectors have not mandate.. of Nations, on certain stipulated only had to cater for all tastes, but
to consider the books that would There are only twenty-nine conditions. Happily, it is on record well. There was the ques fine days there in the year. this point that the London press tion of, what, the readers want to The Islet of the Evangelists, lays especial emphasis, in dierend, and then the further and to the west of the Straits of belief that, if wisely handled, perhaps more difficult question of the new situation may be made what would prove suitable when Magellan,' is runner-up for this productive of fruitful results. read aloud. It is believed, how. booby prize. It rains there on It is, in fact, the task of states has been made, and that the scheme
over, that a satisfactory selection 317 days out of the 365. - manship to explore to the tullest will be a complete success.
The transition from the very, wet to the very dry possible limit this prospect of a пезу order, in which Germany the same category as the ver. naturally in Chili. would be peacefully aligned with sailles Treaty, for which reason the other nations of Europe. The its denunciation could not be two elementà in Hitler's drama- overlooked by the other signa- tic stroke which cause most mis- Itories. But whatever else Herr giving are the actual re-Hitler has done, he has injected militarisation of the Rhineland realism into the European situu-
Even a "London particular": zone and the donunciation of tion. His methods may be re-
would be normal weather to a the Treaty of Locarno. In many gretted in certain quarters, but
There lie the great nitrate In Hongkong the lowest
man from the South Shetlands. circles the view will persist that if cool heads and a temperata deposits which supply the raw thermometer reading ever re- these two acts, sprung suadenly spirit provail, much good may materials for most of our fer corded was 32 degrees Just A Kamaran Islander would freezing point on January 18, turn up his collar in a Hongkong the world, were not eventually emerge from a step tilisers and explosives. justified by events or by the which, viewed otherwise, might If it rained they would dis- 1893. The lowest temperature heat wave. general European outlook, The easily lead to disastrous conse-solve and a great industry be last week was more than cloven Let's stop grousing about the Locarno Pact is certainly not in quences:
ruined. But it never does, and degrees higher.
weather.
upon
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The coldest place is Ver- khoinnsk, in Siberia, where A THERE are islands in the spirit thermometer-mercury. South Atlantic which freezes at -38deg. F.-recorded sealers use, but no man
94deg. F. on January 3, 1885.
ever seen,
the
has
In the Antarctic, explorers on All the year round fog and -' a sledge journey between Cape cloud mask their contours as Evans and Cape Crozier found the Atlantic currents strikes, the a temperature of -76deg. F. in cold of the Antarctic continent. comes July 1911.
Every exploring expedition Almost more unpleasant are brings back fresh information the conditions at Lop Nor, in about the world's weather and Chinese Turkestan.
the more we learn about the climate of other lands the moro reason we have to be grateful for our own.
In the south of that country, near Cape Horn, it is so wet that the natives are unable to light fires.
In the north, on the borders of Peru, it never rains at all.
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-Travellers have found the temperature there vary by as much as 130deg, between mid. night and midday.