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Show 'STORMS TO PREDICT SELVES Wireless Stations to Be Used to Make Tempests Send Their Own 1 Warning Ahead. ' Storm centers move usually In an esterly or northeasterly direction. Hence the prediction of storms on the Atlantic coast is possible, since most of them come from the Mississippi valley. Some come up the coast from the Caribbean sea, but even In this case we have no warning. But western Europe is less fortunate. fortu-nate. Its tempests come from the Atlantic, At-lantic, and with little warning. European Euro-pean weather men have made as much as possible a study of the paths of American storms across the Atlantic and are sometimes accurate in lire-dieting lire-dieting the time of their arrival: the same has been done with storms coming com-ing up from the South Atlantic. Hut it often happens that storms vary either their route or the rate of movement, move-ment, so that predicting cyclones on the coast of western Europe is more or less guesswork. As a possible help in this respect Director Andre of the Lyons observatory observa-tory is making a deep Study of the galvanometer records of various wire less telegraph stations. He has found that the antennae are sensitive to any stray electric currents as well as to messages, and he hopes to discover a way to make the storms telegraph their own warning ahead ol their arrival. Every storm is accompanied by elec trical disturbances, and already M Andre has accumulated a mass of evi dence to show that each storm in this way gives warning. Just how to read this evidence is the problem to which he is devoting himself. |