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The Moon and the Weather

The Moon and the Weather

Oliver, John Westwood

Paperback

Series: Weather Patterns

Weather

ISBN10: 1727076680
ISBN13: 9781727076684
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 5 2018
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.09
Height: 0.06 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
The Moon and the Weather By John Westwood Oliver. THE persistent survival of weather-lore in these days of intellectual emancipation is not at all remarkable when we consider the extent to which the vulgar sayings embody real truths. A few years ago Messrs. Abercromby and Marriott embarked on an extremely interesting inquiry with a view to determine, by actual comparison, how far the popular proverbs express relations, or sequences, which the results of meteorological science show to be real. The investigation proved that something like a hundred of the more popular sayings are, under ordinary conditions, trustworthy. Such being the case, we need not be surprised that simple country folk prefer familiar couplets to all the isobars, cyclones, and synchronous charts, in the world. If hills clear, rain near, means the same as the presence of a wedge-shaped area of high pressure, accompanied by great atmospheric visibility, is likely to be followed by the advance of a disturbance with rain and southerly winds, which for all practical purposes it does, the preference is justified on the mere ground of breath economy. The thirty-one words demanded by science stand no chance against four.

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