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Did you Know That

Sun-spots make our Water restrictions an IT carthquake in Japan can spoil our Summer?

In the next 24 hours

the Weather will be..

By

Sir NAPIER SHAW

The World-famous Meteorologist

FANUARY to date, and November, indeed the whole of the past |twelve months has been so tricky with its weather as to be vexatious for those who are responsible for the weather forecasts published HEAT-WAVE —— Meteorologists in a temperature below zero on day by day in the news- Mount Washington, U.S., sending

up a balloon to get records from papers.

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forecasting of weather. On most occasions the prophecies prove reliable. There comes the day, however, when things go Stubbs Rd. Wrong. Clouds roll up instead

of sunshine, cold instead of warm'. Why?

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1937.

BRITISH AVIATION.

PROGRESS

Just how far have we ad- vanced since the days of the ancients and their old-fashioned weather-lore?

A few details of the extensive research which goes to make up a modern forecast will, show what has been achieved.

The weather report, in the British section, exhibits daily some 3,000 facts', about the weather at 7 a.m. Greenwich time and for the previous 24 hours..

These facts are telegraphed for the forecaster's use from 44 official stations.

are sent nearly 400 additional To aid him still further there

details from health resorts.

From Ships at Sea

forecasts more accurate,

about eleven years, which has been attributed to the combined effect of the motion of Jupiter and Saturn, has been frequently examined for its effect on our weather. Two cases are note worthy, namely, the level of the water of Lake Victoria in equa- torial Africa, which varies with the spots, and the frequency of thunderstorms in Northern Siberia.

IS

ANNOYING....

Or so

Maurice Lane-Norcott.

DON'T tell

whon

-thinks

me that a piece of bread-and-butter slips off a plate and falls on the carpet it always lands butter-side downwards by accident. It doesn't.

Don't try to persuade me that. with all the sensible food there is in the world it is natural for a moth to prefer an old overcont. No healthy moth would de-": Ilberately eat an old overcoat if it wasn't possessed.

Maybe you believe that the handles of teapots are heated by human agency; but I don't. Why should a parlour-mald heat a tea- pot handle just to burn your fingers?

And I don't believe that rakes. fly up and hit us in the face un- prompted, either, when we tread on them in the garden. A rake might do that once or twice, but it wouldn't do it always.

Down a Rabbit Hole

IT is easy for people to Bay that there is a simple scientific explanation for everything, but, if this is so, what is the simple scientific ex- planation for a collar-stud' roll- ing under a wardrobe?

If a large mass of wood, such as a wardrobe, had' a magnetic attraction for a small mass of bone, such as a collar stud, I could understand it. It hasn't, though.

If a man were to drop his collar stud in a forest it wouldn't instantly roll under a tree. Probably it wouldn't even roll under a bush. It would just fall straight down a rabbit hole and

be lost for ever.

Yet when

men,

The news of the past few days has contained interesting evi dence of the success of the trial flights carried out by the first of the high-speed, four-engined monoplanes which the British Air Ministry has ordered for the trans-Atlantic service. The Caledonia last week-end flew non-stop from Southampton to IN the International Sec- equal pressure, but surrounding Alexandria, a greater distance

tion are received 2,000 a centre of high pressure instead weather records from the Con- of low, is the welcome anti-

collar stud in the bedroom it in- a man drops his than the Atlantic crossing, whilst her sister-ship, the Cam-and the Atlantic Islands, and

tinent of Europe, North Africa, cyclone.

variably finds its way beneath brin, flew around

With this knowledge at our the British some 700 by wireless from ships disposal, the whole process of

the wardrobe where the dust is Isles over a distance of 1,350 in the Atlantic and the North weather changes seemed clear.

thickest. Doesn't that prove miles well within scheduled time. Sca.

But the cyclone proved to be

there is a fiend at work? These feats indicate that British About 500 results of observa- like a serpent also in the wiliness

. Some simple-minded aeroplane design and constructions of pressure, temperature, of its behaviour. It moves or

when they put on clean pyjamas tion are still up to the highest of Western Europe, and perhaps ly as it pleases. No wonder the and humidity in the upper air stays, develops or dies, apparent-

at night, are surprised to find that the cord has been pulled standards. In the production the same number of facts about forecasters preferred to call it a of civil aircraft, marked pro-the winds in the upper air, are depression.

I once found, too, that for the right out of the walat-band of twenty years for which I could their trousers. They can't gress was made in Britain last recorded in the Upper Air It was a distinguished Nor- the wheat crops in Eastern Eng- a thing like that.

get homogeneous. estimates of understand why people should do year. The supreme technical Section..... achievement in design was the

wegian philosopher and his land the yield responded quite So that, taken all together, assistants who turned their

It never surprises me, though.. production and entry into ser- there are perhaps 7,000 facts for attention to this misbehaving definitely to the frequency of I'm not even surprised when I vice of the first of the fleet of the forecaster's consideration, cyclonic depression and explain- sun-spots. four-engined monoplane flying-illustrated by eight maps of the ed it as a result of the invasion

put on a shirt in a hurry and boats ordered by Imperial Air-weather of the British Isles and of a

find several small pins, possibly mass of moist, warm,

poisoned, cunningly hidden in ways for operation on Empire their environment. routes. These machines

tropical air flowing westward are This is the material the forc- ncross temperate regions by cold,

THE Abbe Gabriel has the tall of it. well in advance of all contem-caster has to interpret to provide dry, polar air flowing from the tion of astronomical periods written of a combina- porary achievement in the same his daily answer to the question, polar regions or the cold Asiatic which recurs in 744 years and he field. They have proved them- "Will it rain to-morrow?" continent. selves to be easily the world's

used one of its components some the "weather-wise" best flying boats, superior in shepherd to the man who pre- and tropical air currents ac- winter-and it was so.

The repeated clashing of polar years ago to predict a cold speed and in every other aspect pares a modern weather forecast counted for the extensive thun- of performance to any rival, and is

But with all these long periods yet providing accommodation of traversing of which the mercury- perience.

a long, long way, for the derstorms we sometimes ex- the repetition of resultant wea- unprecedented luxury. Weigh-barometer and electric

ther conditions is liable to suffer tele- ing about eighteen tons when graphy are mainly responsible,

from accidental outside in- loaded these great aeroplanes

fluences.

From

attain a maximum level speed of

The Baffling Cylone

ONE used to hear a lot in weather forecasts

But while we may be able to explain the reasons for the weather which has passed, how far can we go in the forecasting

of what is to come?

..

Too Much Ice

our summer.

you

Left in the Cold

me, BELIEVE

would .be simply amazed if you know all the de- vilish things that are going on in the world almost unsuspected by anybody.

Have you ever paused to con- sider why eiderdowns are cover- ed in smooth silk? Well, I will

The year 1911, for example, more than 200 miles an hour,

gave us our hottest summer and tell you. So that they shall and cruise economically at speeds ranging up to 165 or 170

1912 promised to repeat the slip off during the winter nights effect; but then there was an

and give us pneumonia. miles an hour. One of these of the word "cyclone." It was

Those Sun-Spots eruption of Katmai, a volcano in .. Can you guess why the machines, carrying Christmas the hurricanes of the Indian

Alaska, which poured so much banana, which is the easiest fruit mails towards the end of Decem- Ocean that first got that name

OUR modern weather dust into the air that it spoiled to eat out-of-doors, has such a ber, flew from England to Cairo because the air-motion in them caster to issue predictions for maps enable the fore-

slippery skin? No? So that and back, a total distance of was like the coil of a snake. nearly 4,800 miles, in 32 flying

Many other "accidents" are small boys shall throw it on the And, strange to relate, when casions-for example, when a on the mountains or in the

about 24 hours ahead, and on oc possible-too much ice left over pavement that we may slip on it. hours. On the return flight to our weather was first set out on deliberate anticyclone occupies Arctic or Antarctic from the has all those spikes sticking out Do you know why an umbrella England the 1,700 miles from a map something very like a the stage-one may venture to previous winter, may make a all round it? So that someone Alexandria to Marseilles was vortex was found to be marked extend the forecast by three or different world for others, so can give us a good poke in the covered in a little more than out by the lines of eqral pressure four days. eleven hours. In the realm of surrounding a centre of low milltary planes,

much so that too much Arctic eye with them, One of the interesting outside ice is recognised as a cause of a schemes of mass production have been called a cyclonic depression. sun-spots!

ingenious pressure and forming what has influences to be considered is cold year in Northern Europe, us in the rain; why does "the Why do taxicab drivers pass been introduced with complete success, for output has been weather to the different parts of surface of the sun in a period of be affected.

It was found possible to assign

though we in our insular posi- phone bell ring at dawn, and a The variation of the spotted tion in Great Britain may not slug cat greatly accelerated without the the depression.

our delphiniums? Why...?

The

slightest sacrifice of the high standards of craftsmanship' and cyclone, marked also by lines of counterpart of the efficiency for which British air-

SPLIT INFINITIVES

to

craft constructors are famous, tish aeronautical technique was This has meant the wholesale admirably demonstrated last scrapping of old methods and autumn, when Squadron-Leader the rapid creation of new manu- F.R.D. Swain, with a specially M barber a lot well informed facturing processes. In the built monoplane, set up a new

Prior to this incident, I confess I to early days of aviation British

think lenda strength kind and withal well-informed did not know that the Insertion of infinitive. manufacturers excelled in the reached a height of 15,223 grammar.

world altitude record. He and not unmindful of the rules of adverbs in our inînitives -- was; Newspaper editors, University excellence of design and

grammatically wrong. There are professors, and high school teachern Also, he has the accomplishments many, not otherwise untutored, who are very severe on the split infinitive magnificent achievement in this accomplishments are appraised in thought to the matter; others who grammatical heresy. In the face of metres at the first attempt, of the successful salesmanns such reach adult life without giving evidently, they regard it as a most difficult field of aeronau- this modern age. Holding up a know the view of grammarians on such potent opposition one hesitates tical endeavour, and put Great bottle he remarked: "This is the the split. infinitive, but for some to offer any ples on behalf of the Britain in the van of strato, only mixture to effectively prevent resson or other, elect to defy the heretics.

con-

struction of military aircraft for a time they were challenged, but they are again in the lead. They are producing fighters cap

baldness."

able of "Schneider Trophy" sphere" flying research. Dur CRAWFORD'S

rule which prohibits its uso.

speeds of well over three hun- ing 1987 more experimental mind of my English teacher of many rebuke must have had the desired

His words brought a picture to my In my own case, the teacher's Legal Lapses

dred miles an hour, and bombers fights will be made, in the years ago returning my youthful effect, for nearly as fast and of great load fecurso of which it is hoped a scathing comment. “Terrible_three horror that Inserted adverb, which, taken liberties with the rules-of- over since, I have Learned lawyers, who frame the capacity. The quality of Bri- new world record will be set up spilt infinitives in one essay."

effort in composition to me with the regarded with feeling okin to statutes of our country, seem to have.

rightly or wrongly-one would seem. (Continued on Page 4.)