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DURING the last few years more than usual atten tion has been paid to the question of the relationship between sun-spots or prominences and “weather,” and to the possibility of being able in the near future to forecast the characters of approaching seasons. Quite recently in this Journal (vol. lxxi. p. 493, March 23) we referred briefly to a pamphlet published by the United States Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, summing up the general state of the problem of long-range weather forecasting. In this it was stated that advances in the period and accuracy of weather forecasts depend upon a more exact study and understanding of atmospheric pressure over large areas, and a determination of the influences, probably solar, that are responsible for normal and abnormal distributions of atmospheric pressure over the earth's surface.
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LOCKYER, W. Solar Changes and Weather . Nature 72, 129 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072129a0
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