Excerpt from Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Vol. 20 Comparing spring and Winter taken together With summer and autumn taken together it is seen, neglecting velocities below 4 miles, that from velocities 4-5 miles to velocities 12-18 miles the Wind blow for a greater number of hours in summer and autumn than in spring and Winter, but. That for velocities above 18 miles this is reversed, the number of hours in spring and Winter being the greater, the difference increasing rapidly With increase of velocity. On con sideration it Will be understood that this is a result that might be expected Summer and autumn are not seasons of heavy gales, so that the number of hours registered at moderate velocities Will necessarily be greater than in spring and Winter On the other hand, the gales of spring and Winter cause a greater number of hours of higher velocities to be then registered than in summer and autumn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.