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LONG before the outbreak of the world conflagration of the past two years war and the weather was a subject which captivated many minds, mainly of non-scientific or semi-scientific people who were prepared to accept as proof the most superficial circumstances which seemed to substantiate any popular belief. Even during the progress of the present war there have been many discussions in the Press and before societies in this and in other countries which have had for their object the perpetuation of the old belief that gun-firing causes rain, though round Shoebury-ness, our great gun-firing station, less rain falls than in any other part of the British Isles! These quasi-learned discussions have been of no assistance to the fighting forces on sea or land.
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Meteorology in War . Nature 98, 216–217 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098216b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098216b0