Weather Charts and Storm Warnings. By Robert H. Scott, M.A.
P.R.S. (Henry S. King and Co.)—Who would not like to know on rifling what sort- of weather to expect during the day? And after tapping the barometer and predicting fine, or wet and wind, according to the rise or fall of 'the mercury, the chagrined observet frequently ands his prognostications delusive, and blames his instrument, or thinks some- thing in the firmament is out of gear. For instance, how great must have been -the astonishment of the Liverpool people on the morning of -Jsamsxy14 in the present year, to find that although a furious gale was raging round them, their weather-glasses indicated "set fair." Aperusal
of this excellent introduction to weather-study willexplain these seeming anomalies, show the fallacy of the present marking.of ourweather- glasses by types of weather, and furnish an unanswerable reply to those grumblers who complain, when a coast storm-signal -has or has not been displayed, on the non-occurrence or occurrence of a storm. When we consider the meagreness of the data furnished to the head office, and reflect how uncertain are the movements of such an elastic substance as the atmosphere, we can only wonder that so high a per-centage as 80 successful warnings can have been attained. Mr. Scott, by this book, has not only rendered the daily weather reports to be found in the Times full of interest, but shown us how, by taking observations for ourselves, to turn them to practical account.
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