Forecasting.—Valuable aid in fore casting storms and weather is derived from two important deductions from past observations: (1) A cyclone tends toward a path near to the anticyclone which lies immediately to the right of the progressive motion of the storm at the time. /2' When the rates of fall of the barometer at stations in the W. of Europe are noted, it is found that the path taken by the coming storm is in dicated by those stations at which the rates of fall of the barometer are greatest. See METEOROLOGY.
Relations of Storms to the Character of the Season.—This is vital and all important. Thus, as regards the British Islands, when the general path pursued by storms in their E. course over Eu rope lies to the S. the winter is severe, inasmuch as the British Islands are then on the N. side of the center of low pres sure, and consequently in the stream of the N. and E. winds which there prevail. On the other hand. when the paths of storms lies to the N. the British Islands are on the S. side of the low pressure, and therefore in the stream of the warm, moist, S. and S. W. winds which there
prevail.
It is plain that the character of the weather of any particular day or season is wholly determined by the way in which areas of high and of low atmos pheric pressure are distributed over the region during that day or season. Fur ther, the weather of the coming season could certainly be predicted for say the British Islands, if only the general path was known which the centers of the Atlantic cyclones will take in their E. course over Europe; for if the paths of the winter storms be to the N. of Great Britain the winter will be an open one, but if to the S. a severe winter is the certain result. Toward the solution of this highly practical problem we look to seamen to put us in possession of a fuller and, above all, an earlier knowledge of the fluctuations of the surface tempera ture of the Atlantic, and to high-level observatories _ for the data required in obtaining a clearer insight into the history and theory of storms. See METEOROLOGY: WEATHER BUREAU: WIND: CYCLONE.