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(1) EARLY in 1934, Mr. Watson Watt gave a series of broadcast talks on weather which attracted considerable interest from the novelty of the treatment and the vividness of the imagery. These talks have now been published in a very readable book, illustrated by some good cloud pictures. The “Weather House” as pictured in the frontispiece is a super-sky-scraper of ultramodern design, with a hundred stories each six miles high, fitted with all modern conveniences in the form of electric lighting, heating and decoration, and all supplied by ‘wireless'.
(1) Through the Weather House:
or, The Wind, the Rain, and Six Hundred Miles Above. By R. A. Watson Watt. Pp. xi + 192 + 8 plates. (London: Peter Davies, Ltd., 1935.) 7s. 6d. net.
(2) Weather Proverbs and Paradoxes
By Dr. W. J. Humphreys. Second edition. Pp. xii + 126 + 16 plates. (Baltimore, Md.: The Williams and Wilkins Co.; London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1934.) 9s.
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(1) Through the Weather House: (2) Weather Proverbs and Paradoxes. Nature 136, 457 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136457a0
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