Mr. W. Brooks Sayers, a. member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, lecturing on electronomy at the Institute of Marine Engineers, gave some interesting experiments in support of the theory that varying weather conditions are to be accounted for by the effect on our atmosphere of electro-vaporous streams from the gigantic solar electric furnace of the sun.
The violent atmospheric disturbances which occur during storms were explained on the basis that these electric streams from the sun charged the higher atmosphere both with water vapour and electricity up to a point at which the disrupt tion discharge known as lighting occurred, or there was a_ huge, more or less continuous, leak through which the electric fluid passed and produced tornadoes, whirlwinds, water spouts, and other violent phenomena. Referring to the recent occurrence in Guernsey of a terrific tornado which was:
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