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fcOXr; RANGE FORECASTS.
Estimating the Rainfall for a Whole
Season.
For about twenty years the Meteorological
Berviee of India- haa been making ambitious
efforts to predict th« general character of the
Boutl west monsoon rainfall. This cornea in
rammer, and on its abundance or scarcity
largely di ; ■ nd the rewards of agriculture in
Hindustan. it is no exaggeration to say that
there is an intimate relation •- '• •'■■ ■! > the life
and prosperity of millions nd the pre< Ipitatlon
of moisture borne ln!and fr.-.m th<- Indian Ocean.
In the judgment of the editor of "The United
Etates Monthly Weather Review." the work,
though not uniformly successful, has t< en at
tended with results which entourage its con
tinuance. The periodical Just mentioned re
produces in its latest issue a report by Pro
f<FEf>r Ilann, of Vienna, who In on< of the
world's most authoritative climatologists and
in. ti i rologi Dr. Harm says, in pan :
Bl • • -.1. who Initiated the for«*rasts. thougM
thai he had shown that generally snnv;f:i!l in the
reulons to th<- north and west ..f India produced a!i
abnormal distribution of pressure over N<>rt'i< m
India that was unfavorable i.> tti<- advance of the
southwest monsoons <iv«t thin r<'^:j::: '-'1 he
ario;.t'-.l the general principle hat lower atmos
pheric pressure over any area Increased the
amount of Us rainfall.
Sir John Kliot, Hlanford's successor. showM that
the conditions over India alone would not BulQce t..
Justify reliable forecasts, .md after the year 1»«
GUARDSMEN WINDING UP THEIR TENTS TO LET THE RAIN SOAKED
GROUND UNDERNEATH GET DRY.
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY. JUNE 9, 1907.
A JUNE SUNDAY AT THE STATE CAMP, PEEKSKILL.
The Mth Regiment opened tho camp in most unseasonable weather on June "L
GUARDSMEN TRYING TO KEEP WARM BESIDE A BONFIRE.
Information as to the conditions over the Indian
Ocean was made us* of. extending annually fur
ther south until. In 1537. even Africa and Australia
were considered. It seemed most probable that
heavier rainfall at Zanzibar and off th.- Seychelles
In May would Justify predicting heavier rainfall in
India later In the season, when the monsoon had
crossed over the equator But later experience
showed that the opposite was the ease. Then it w:is
assumed that perhaps an abnormally high pressure
over Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean,
would Increase the monsoon current and the Indian
rainfall: but this .li.l not rove to be the case. The
relations between rainfall in India and atmospheric
pressure .•■. • : India. Siberia; the Indian eau and
South America are such that In years of cx
GENERAL GEORGE MOORE SMITH, IN COMMAND AT CAMP.
oesstve monsoon rainfall in India the atmospheric
pressure over South America is too high, and. con
versely, nnall rainfall in India goes with low
pressure In South America. Moreover, in in. my
years the low pressure occurs earlier in Soutn
Am.Tica than tho small rainfall In India. A table
or snowfall for fifteen years shows that in the •'><•
of heavy and late snowfalls, when the area In tre
Indian highlands covered with snow in May 1?
larger than usual, it argues for small rainfall in
Thirteen years of records show that heavy rain
f.-.1l in the equatorial region, over Zanzibar and
the Seychelles, brings deficient rainfall in India
over both branches of the monsoon; so thai in t'eii
era! the snowfall in upper India ia not connected
QUARTERMASTER (CITY CONTROLLER! METZ LOOKING FOR FINER
WEATHEH.
primarily with the subsequent defect In rain.'i '!,
but Is only an indication of a disturbance in • «
general circulation of the ;;trr.ospher*\ Moreover.
excessive rainfall at Zanzibar in April and May
c ineidca with deficient height of the Rood wave in
the Nile liiver; so that we may s;iy that a de
ficient snowfall in upper India coincides with a •:■ -
Relent Rood in the Kile On the other hand. h»-.ivy
snowfall in India ar>i heavy rainfall in the equa
torial region is paralleled by the connection t -
tweee abnormal rainfall at Zanzibar a:i(i the
Sryrhellf^ in November, with heavy snowfall ir.
upper India in the subsequent cold se*son.
With res;:ir.i to arn;r>«; h>T:<- pressnr* an«i r.: ; ->.
fall, hich pressure in Mauritius means small r, -ti
fan in India, an<J low pressure in Maar-.tius is ti
low.*! by heavy rainfall in India in a l:irt:. :
jority of casts, .... rtr cent. Compar -■
pressures in Argentina with ra:r.fa!l in Ir. ■!.■
Walker, new in charge of the service in Indi;». Ac !
I are led to the r.-mar'K.ii.'« r-^sritt that ;>
live depart of pressure in the spring at Cos
iloba art- follow* t>y j><»sitive departures of • *
n , xt followtng summer raanfall in India,
worst drouth in Inili^u with a rair.f.ill departure ■
24 I- ' c«nt. of 2CI mT.limetres. was precede! r- a
departure 0f —1.4 millimetres of barometric prts: •
at Cordoba; w»,ere.is the b« *t iponsoon r:tirr.
ISS" with a departure of -^121 millimetres, was ;
ceded by •LS millimetres of pressure departur at
Cordoba. Accordn to the last memorandum
Walker. l.i-^:- 1 dejartures of pressure in Juij tt
Mauritius hay*» :i close i-onner:;on with the sirntil
tanoous opposite departures of rainfall In Au;-t
and September over the whole of India.
PUSISIWEXT FITS 77// CRWF.
MasiFtrat^ — Th*» fair plaintiff saj Y°u kissed
her against her will Is it true?"
Defendant I don't know anytlg ab«%ut her
will, your honor. l kissed her on On lips, but I
only kissed he? once.
Magistrate— Why ii.l you stop at onr?
Defendant— She had beca eating onion*, your
bom r. and — —
Magistrate (lnttrruptinp>— That will do. I
sentence you to kiss her three times. — Chicago
News.