 | William John Loftie - 1888 - 662 pages
...places, if we know the readings of the barometer. The law is stated in the following terms : — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." This is the law for the northern hemisphere, for the southern hemisphere... | |
 | Edward Hull - 1888 - 382 pages
...then look in the direction towards which the wind is blowing, or it may be put in this form : — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." Thus, supposing the position of minimum pressure to be over the Norfolk... | |
 | Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - 1890 - 662 pages
...to the adjoining areas of high and low pressure is given by the following rule. The general rule is :Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. Thus the wind may be expected to be : Easterly, when the pressure is... | |
 | John Thornton (M.A.) - 1890 - 372 pages
...relation to these gradients in accordance with the law of BuysBallot. This law may be stated thus : Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. As thus expressed the law holds good for the northern hemisphere except... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1893 - 570 pages
...stated in the so-called law, named after Buys Ballot, by whom it was first enunciated. It runs thus: "Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right."f In the southern hemisphere, as a moment's consideration will show,... | |
 | Evan William Small - 1894 - 260 pages
...rotation. The direction of the wind in the northern hemisphere is expressed by Buys Ballot's rule — "Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." The VELOCITY OF THE WIND is found to be proportional to the closeness... | |
 | John William Moore - 1894 - 488 pages
...hemisphere, except close to the equator, this law may be concisely stated in the following terms : " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right hand." Similarly, for the southern hemisphere, except close to the equator,... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - 1897 - 240 pages
...be expressed in precise phrases. The general rule (commonly known as " Buys Ballot's Law") is : — stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. Hence it follows that the wind may be expected to be Easterly when the... | |
 | Edward Walter Maunder - 1900 - 328 pages
...the region of highest barometer, or, as it is expressed in what is known as ' Buys 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 law holds good for the northern hemisphere generally, except near... | |
 | Herbert B. Mason - 1908 - 774 pages
...Exploration. Butt-slings. Slings by which casks are raised. Buys-Ballot's Law. In the northern hemisphere. " Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on the left hand and higher on the right." Directions are reversed in the southern hemisphere. Buzzard.... | |
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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. 
