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" Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. "
The Quarterly Journal of Science - Page 115
1869
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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected ..., Volume 52

1883 - 1048 pages
...which I have mentioned into what is known as his Law, which for the northern hemisphere runs thus. " Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your loft hand than on your right." The apparatus consists of a bar or cross piece like a ship's yard, hoisted...
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Monthly Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy ..., Volume 6

James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1869 - 700 pages
...investigation of the weather reports published in ' The Tunes ' for the period of nine months, the truth ot the rule for foretelling the direction of the wind...direction nine times out of ten, and as to both direction and/orce six times out of ten. It is shown that in the case of our great storms 90 per cent. of them...
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Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, Volume 8

1873 - 598 pages
...winds, and has laid down a principle whish generally goes by the name of his Law. It runs thus: — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your leit hand than on your right." This Jaw shows us that the old idea that the direction of the wind is...
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Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Volume 13

Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain) - 1870 - 826 pages
...Redfield, and by Dr. Lloyd, the present Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. The law is as follows : — Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer...be lower on your left-hand side than on your right. Stated thus, the law has no predictive force, but, if it be stated conversely, it will bear such a...
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Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania

Royal Society of Tasmania - 1871 - 540 pages
...established. * The advent as well direction of the storm has been familiarly expressed by Ballot's law, " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." This roughly-stated principle will account for the great storms of the...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 15

1879 - 978 pages
...weather telegraphy. It is usually known under the name of Buys Ballot's Law, and is stated as follows : " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." The truth of this law is evident to any one who looks at a weather chart...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 18

1873 - 808 pages
...the barometrical column. This principle is known as Buys Ballot's Law ; it runs as follows : — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." This is a simple application to all winds of the principle established...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 18; Volume 81

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 pages
...the barometrical column. This principle is known as Buys Ballot's Law ; it runs as follows : — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." This is a simple application to all winds of the principle established...
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Evening hours, ed. by E.H. Bickersteth, Volume 1

Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1874 - 764 pages
...BUYS BALLOT'S LAW, after the Dutch Professor of that name, who discovered it. It runs as follows : " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right hand." We know then, from this law, that whenever wo have a Westerly wind...
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Report of the Rugby School Natural History Society

Rugby School. Natural History Society - 1874 - 714 pages
...LAW, after the Dutch professor of that name, who first saw its importance. It is as follows: — " Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." ' It is easy to test this principle by any of the charts of storms on...
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