The Problem Of The Weather

Accordlng to a paper Dy Mr. mcAdie, reeently published by the SmithBonian Institution, lt appears doubtLul if the official wather-forecasters are today much In advance ai their predecessors of twenty-flve yeara ago. Thla meane that an extensión must be made of our knowüedge ol the atmospherè before moreaccurate weather predictionè wlll liecome poseible. The establishment ofan aero-ptiyslcal observatory is advocated for the stduy of all the lnfluences and conditions' that affect and governthe -weather. t is asserted that the origin of the etectricity of thundr-clouds iBa little uaderstood today as was the nature of. lightnlng itself btfore Frabklin's famous experimwit with h!s kite nearly one hundred and fifty yaars ago.