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Show STORMS TO PREDICT SELVES Wireless Stations to Be Used to Mako l Tempests Send Their Own j 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 ui the coast from jihe Caribbean sea, but even In this ' case we have no warning, i But western Europe is less fortu- nate. Its tempests come from the At-. At-. lantic, and with little warning. Euro-pean 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 predicting pre-dicting the "ie of their arrival; the same has h done with storms coming com-ing up from the South Atlantic. But 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 wireless 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 of y their arrival, i Every storm is accompanied by electrical elec-trical disturbances, and already M. Andre has accumulated a mass of evidence 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. |