...Similarly, for the southern hemisphere, except close to the equator, the rule holds good : " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your right hand than on your left hand." 1 " Notes on the Meteorology of Ireland," Royal Irish Academy Transactions,...

...of the Equator. The Law of Motion is known as Buys Ballot's Law, and it is thus stated : — Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. This is the law in the Northern Hemisphere, in the Southern it. is exactly reversed. So much for the...

...expressed in precise phrases. The general rule (commonly known as " Buys Ballot's Law") is : — stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. Hence it follows that the wind may be expected to be Easterly when the pressure is higher in the N....

...since been known by his name. Buys-Ballot's Law is generally stated as follows : Stand tritli your hack to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right.i This statement, as will be seen, covers both cyclonic and anticyclonic systems. The circulations...

...region of highest barometer, or, as it is expressed in what is known as ' Buys 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 law holds good for the northern hemisphere generally, except near to the equator ; in the southern...

...the so-called law, named after Buys Ballot, by whom it was first enunciated. It runs thus : " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." f In the southern hemisphere, as a moment's consideration will show, "right" and " left " must be reversed....

...some years ago by Professor Buys Ballot, a Dutch meteorologist, viz. : '' Stand with your back t« the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right,'' It was shown by a number of lantern slides that the cyclonic systems generally travel in a north-easterly...

...Butt-slings. Slings by which casks are raised. Buys-Ballot's Law. In the northern hemisphere. " Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on the left hand and higher on the right." Directions are reversed in the southern hemisphere. Buzzard....

...and has laid down a principle which 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 left hand than on your right." This law shows us that the old idea, that the direction of the wind is governed by the absolute height...

...enunciated for the northern hemisphere : — Stand with your back to the wind in the northern hemisphere and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. For the southern hemisphere the opposite is the case, and the law as applicable in that case is:—...