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THE formal opening of Crohamhurst Observatory, situated in lat. 26° 50′ S., long. 152° 55′ E., by H. E. the Governor of Queensland took place on August 13, 1935. The observatory will be concerned with meteorological and solar work, and will in particular attempt seasonal forecasting on the basis of the sunspot cycle. The City of Brisbane is visited by disastrous floods about every twenty years, and the rainfall which is received in the valley in which the new Observatory is situated is the sole cause of these floods; in fact, the record rainfall of Australia, 35-7 inches in 24 hours, was recorded at Crohamhurst in 1893. The director of the new observatory is Mr. Inigo Jones, who has been engaged on meteorological work in this part of Australia for forty years, and claims an accuracy of more than eighty per cent in forecasting weather conditions. His views on the relation of weather to the sunspot cycle and to the movements of the planets have been referred to from time to time in our columns (see NATURE, July 2, 1932, p. 31, and Sept. 2, 1933, p. 345). Brisbane is to be congratulated on the possession of its new observatory.
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New Meteorological Observatory at Brisbane. Nature 137, 183 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137183a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137183a0