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IN the absence of any recognised English equivalent for the expressive German term Das Wetterschiessen, have thought it best in th heading of this article to avoid a literal translation of it lest it should give rise to misunderstanding. “Weather shooting” does not refer to any haphazard or empirical attempts to foretell the weather, but to a practice which has lately come to have great vogue in Styria, Italy and elsewhere of firing off charges of gunpowder to protect the vineyards against injury from hail. So popular indeed has the practice become in some districts that there is danger of the cost of the protection exceeding that of any damage likely to be caused by the hail.
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SHAW, W. Hailstorm Artillery. Nature 64, 159–161 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064159a0
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