 | 1883 - 1048 lehte
...which I have mentioned into what is known as his Law, which for the northern hemisphere runs thus. " Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your loft hand than on your right." The apparatus consists of a bar or cross piece like a ship's yard, hoisted... | |
 | 1869 - 692 lehte
...investigation of the weather reports published in ' The Times' for the period of nine months, the truth of the rule for foretelling the direction of the wind...direction nine times out of ten, and as to both direction and force six times out of ten. It is shown that in the case of our great storms 90 per cent, of them... | |
 | 1873 - 598 lehte
...winds, and has laid down a principle whish generally goes by the name of his Law. It runs thus: — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your leit hand than on your right." This Jaw shows us that the old idea that the direction of the wind is... | |
 | Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain) - 1870 - 826 lehte
...Redfield, and by Dr. Lloyd, the present Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. The law is as follows : — Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer...be lower on your left-hand side than on your right. Stated thus, the law has no predictive force, but, if it be stated conversely, it will bear such a... | |
 | Royal Society of Tasmania - 1871 - 540 lehte
...established. * The advent as well direction of the storm has been familiarly expressed by Ballot's law, " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." This roughly-stated principle will account for the great storms of the... | |
 | 1879 - 978 lehte
...weather telegraphy. It is usually known under the name of Buys Ballot's Law, and is stated as follows : " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." The truth of this law is evident to any one who looks at a weather chart... | |
 | 1873 - 808 lehte
...the barometrical column. This principle is known as Buys Ballot's Law ; it runs as follows : — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." This is a simple application to all winds of the principle established... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 lehte
...the barometrical column. This principle is known as Buys Ballot's Law ; it runs as follows : — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." This is a simple application to all winds of the principle established... | |
 | Rugby School. Natural History Society - 1874 - 714 lehte
...LAW, after the Dutch professor of that name, who first saw its importance. It is as follows: — " Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." ' It is easy to test this principle by any of the charts of storms on... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1874 - 764 lehte
...BUYS BALLOT'S LAW, after the Dutch Professor of that name, who discovered it. It runs as follows : " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right hand." We know then, from this law, that whenever wo have a Westerly wind... | |
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Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. 
