For Long-Range Forecasting

Pole-to-Pole Weather Stations For Long-Range Forecasting

SOME day, when Pole-to-Pole weather stations are establshed and furc tionmg, and a little irore is known about weather cycles it miv be possible to forecast good or bid season for various crops, . This’s the opinion of Mr. J. W. Hatch ings who was the organising secretary of the meteorological section of the Pacific Science Qongress that was rece itly held in New Zealand.

Recommendations by the meteoro’ogical committee that weather s f at be set up, linking the South with the North Pole are already being put into effe.t but new upper-air research stat : ons must be established at Little America in the Ant arctic, on Norfolk Island, New Hebrides Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Tarawa and so on a line northward. The gaps in this chain would be filled bv weather ships. The chief purpose of these will be the recurring fluctuations in the weather —it is already known that in parts of the Pacific, weather occurs in a three year cycle.

The new Governor of French Oceania, M. Anziani, who has succeeded M.

Maestracci, was expected to arrive in Tahiti by the “Ville d’Amiens” early in April.