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TUESDAY, MAR, 10, 1936.
FEARS AND HOPES
Despite the anxieties aroused
the new developments in Europe, it is reassuring to feel that, so far as Britain is con- cerned, there is no evidence of panic. Rather, the tendency is to seek ways and menus of turn- ing the situation to the greatest possible advantage. Germany's Chancellor would have been a man of little discernment were he not aware that the presenta- tion of the fait accompli in the Rhineland would bring a storm of protest from the French. He would be a man of remarkably little immagination did he not per- ceive that the moving of his battalions into the demilitarised zone would rouse alarm in French hearts and possibly
WEATHER
by BASIL MURRAY
JOWA # NEBRASKA Where chering a. Tomado -WINDBÆRD REACHED MOURLY 400MEN.
MOUNT WAILCALE
-Hawaiian Islands-
In both 1914 % 1916 over
600 ina of rain fell here.
LOUISIANA.US/ When it blew at (40MPH, Sept, 1915
CHILI-
In the north it ́ NEVER RAINS
AT ALL
In the south
-near Cape Hores IT 15 30 WET
THAT NATIVES
GANHOT LIGHT FIRES
ISLAND OF THE EVANGELISTS
» Il rams here on.
317 DAYS out of the 365
HY do we always blame the weather?
F This month it is the cold
spell that is the chief object of attack. In two or three months it will be the humi- dity.
Actually, our weather, special ly now, is perfect compared with other parts of the world.
Next time you feel hke 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:
LONDON. 22 inches OF. rain per year
CRKVICE-Calfaro *WETTEST STAKE IN ČUDOPE Abral 103rd.per y
VERKHOAINGK Gibara
IS THE CINDEDT PLACE. steve a opičić Thermomiler recorded -SA°F. Sun, 43S
LOP NOR-Gese Tuomasin Tiavellers have found „Hwy, femperature here vary by s
+130° between metright # 'midday,
CHERRAPUNJI-ATTAM, FANTALL 424 tres, per ye
|| MARSHALL, 15.
(capora)
There are only 29 FINE DAYS AYOW HERC
DEBU
· WETTEST
-STO INS
WINDJEST PLACE in the WORLD -ADELIE LAND- on the Antarctic Contineri. MEDE IT BLOWS A FULL GALE ALL THE YEAR ROUND
Compare this with the platenu
WADI HALTA
SUDAN Where Hve Lant gauge meafurde NOTHING
from $801
lo 1900
REGION O PERPETUAL FOG. There are glands here sued by Nie Spalaran Hat no fury Just over Seen
The average rainfall in Hong. bodies of Spaniards have been Having escaped drowning anıl kong amounts to about eighty- found there in perfect preserva- froczing there is always the five inches a year.
Lion after hundreds of years, em- chance of being blown away. balmed by the dry heat.
But, despite our typhoons, we South-West Africa, Upper 'do not know what wind is in the Egypt, and Central Australia are Colony. the other great dry spots on the map.
of Cherrapunji, in the hills of Assam.
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.
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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
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A gale is any wind with a velocity of thirty-nine m.p.h. or more.
We may
experience half dozen in a year. In America hurricanes of 150 m.p.h. and more occur regularly."
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one in either 1895 or 1898.
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 the of recording temperature-with square of its speed, and becomes the dry thermometer or the wet, so terrific in a hurricane that The wet thermometer is the instruments are nearly al- In one month at Cherrapunji, piece of damp cloth
fastened ways wrecked. in the year 1841, 264 inches of over the top of 1 tube of rain fell. there
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 20, 1915, but much higher wind-speeds have been deduced by calculation.
than
The fire bein military machine in NOTES OF THE DAY thirty inches on five successive
motion. And we know, from the
purpose.
the Blind. The
days.
There are other spots almost as wet. Mount Waileale, in the Hawaiian Islands, is known in the United States as "Uncle Sam's dampest corner."
mercury.
-The moisture of the cloth- evaporates and lowers the tem- perature in the tube.
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THE same process is always going on in the human body, and in consequence the wet thermometer is the best criterion of how a given climate will
affect men.
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 Sea, the other on the coast of Sierra Leonc.
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During a tornado in·lown and Nebraska in 1913 soft objects struck harder objects with such force
to. '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.
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 two years' investigation and re- that catches up greater weight search, by the Sound Recording with
In both 1914 and 1916 it has its greater velocity, it is Committee, a body jointly re-
the National Institute] been calculated that over 600 finally irresistible. It takes presenting more than a word of command for the Blind, St. Dunstan's Hospi- inches of rain fell on the wind-
tal for the Blind, and the National ward slopes of this mountain. to quiet the machine; for
for Library mobilisation is not a purely Library will either sell or lend the
The wettest place in Africa is mechanical thing, but something "books", as well as the specially Debundschu, in the Cameroons, of a spiritual force as well.adapter gramophones. They will a plantation at the foot of the Herr Hitler must have realised in no way compete with the Braille Cameroon peak, where there is: the danger when he ordered his books for purposes of study, as they
an annual fall of nearly 370 quile different in type and inches. troops into the Rhineland, with-are out warning of any kind. But The machine used is n gramo- Hongkong compared with The must also have felt very sure phone with a motor that causes these places is a dry area. Even
If you had been at either of that this sort of diplomacy would the turn-table to revolve slowly Europe has much "damper" cor- those places on the days in
But the windlest place on the succeed, and that it would not at 24 revolutions a minute, com-ners, such as the unpronounce question you would have had a map is far away, near the South precipitate violence, or he would pared with the 78 revolutions of able town of Crkvice, on the fover however much you per-
Pole. In Adelio Lnad on the surely not have pulled Fate by thé
gramophone. The Gulf of Cattaro, which averages apired.
Antarctic continent a full gale the nose with so little apparent result is that each side of a twelve-
blows all the year round. inch record for the consequences.
gives
The highest shade tempera- twenty-five
On one day in 1912 the wind And it is this thought that minutes reading, and a novel of But the places where the rain ture ever recorded was at Azizia makes us hopeful in this crisis. records. The list of talking books those where it rains most often when the mercury rose to 136 mph., and for a whole month Jength will go on eight is heaviest are not necessarily in Tripoli on September 13, 1922, never dropped below ninety Looking at the situation calm- either ready or in preparation now ly, it would, as we remarked includes over sixty titles. The The world's worst spot for deg. F. Death Valley, California, it was more than sixty m.p.h.
In Hongkong, the highest yesterday, be foolish to overlook choice of subjects and authors has plenies is Jaluit, in the Marshall has come within 2deg. of this. [the constructive aspects of the followed upon much discussion and Islands, which Japan adminis-
These figures compare with a wind velocity recorded was 108 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 offer of re-entry into the League only had to cater for all tastes, but
of factors. The selectors have not mandate.
on the night of July 29, 1896. *degrees on August 19, 1900. of Nations, on certain stipulated to consider the books that would
The coldest place is Ver- There are only twenty-nine conditions. Happily, it is on record well. There was the ques- fine days there in the year,
kholańsk, in Siberia, where a THERE are islands in the this point that the London press tion of what the readers want to
spirit thermometer-mercury South Atlantic which the The Islet of the Evangelists, freezes at -38deg. Frecorded sealers use, but no laya especial emphasis, in ne read, and then the further and
man has belief that, if wisely handled, perhaps more diflicult question of to the west of the Straits of 94deg. F. on January 3, 1885. the new situation may be made Wat would prove suitable when Magellan, is runner-up for this
In the Antarctic, explorers on read aloud. It is believed, how booby prize. It rains there on productive of fruitful results. It is, in fact, the task of states has been made, and that the scheme
satisfactory selection 317 days out of the 365. ever, that manship to explore to te zullest will be a complete success.
The transition from the very possible limit this prospect of a
wet to the very dry comes naturally in Chili,
concern
new
standard
average
183 inches.
In the south of that country. near Cape Horn, it is so wet that the natives are unable to light fires.
over seen.
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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. 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.
order, in which Germany the same category as the ver would be peacefully aligned with sailles Treaty, for which reason the other nations of Europe. The its denunciation could not be two elements in Hitler's drama overlooked by the other signa- tic stroke which cause most mis- tories. But whatever else Herr
Travellers have found the giving are the
temperature there vary by as actual re-Hitler has done, he has injected militarisation of the Rhineland realism into the European situa- Peru, it never rains at all.
In the north, on the borders of
much as 130deg, between mid- zone and the denunciation of tion. His methods may be re-
night and midday.
Even a "London particular”. the Treaty of Locarno. In many gretted in certain quarters, but deposits which supply the raw thermometer reading ever re- man from the South Shetlands.
There lie the great nitrate
in Hongkong
the lowest. would be normal weather to a circles-the view will persist that if cool heads and a temperate materials for most of our fer- corded was 32. degrees-just these two acts, sprung suddenly spirit prevail, much good may tilisers and explosives.
A Kamaran Islander would upon the world, were not eventually emerge from a step
freezing point-on January 18, turn up his collar, in a Hongkong justified by events or by the which, viewed otherwise, might solve and a great industry be last week was more than eleven
If It rained they would dis- 1893. The lowest temperature heat wave,• general European outlook. The easily lead to disastrous conse- Locarno Pact is certainly not in quences.
Let's stop grousing about the weather,
ruined. But, it never does, and degrees higher.
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