...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...illustrated by the diagram before you. It was fully explained in my former lecture. The law is — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." As a simple result of this fertile generalization, we find that there...