 | Royal Society of Tasmania - 1871 - 540 pages
...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 Northern Hemisphere,... | |
 | Science - 1879 - 978 pages
...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 ; but the Dutch Professor,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1873 - 840 pages
...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 long ago by Mr. Redfield... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 808 pages
...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 long ago by Mr. Redfield... | |
 | Rugby School. Natural History Society - Natural history - 1874 - 714 pages
...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 the wall. The lines,... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1874 - 764 pages
...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 the barometer must... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 584 pages
...diagram before you. It was fully explained in my former lecture. The law is — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." As a simple result of this fertile generalization, we find that there is no danger of a gale,... | |
 | Robert Henry Scott - 1876 - 230 pages
...convenience, is known as Buys Ballot's Law, is contained in the following statement. Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. These words hold good, except close to the equator, for the northern hemisphere ; in the southern... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - 1877 - 348 pages
...by the name of Buys Ballot's Law, as declared in the following statement : — Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. These words hold good everywhere, except close to the equator, or the northern hemisphere; in... | |
 | Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1890 - 660 pages
...areas of high and low pressure is given by the following rule. The general rule is:Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. Thus the wind may be expected to be : Easterly, Avhen the pressure is higher in the north than... | |
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In the northern hemisphere, stand with your hack to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. 
