Abstract
THE first annual report of the Thunderstorm Census Organisation, Langley Terrace, Hudders-field, deals statistically with the records obtained, largely with the aid of private observers, during the six summer months April–September of 1931. It is an amateur enterprise conducted by Mr. S. Morris Bower as a sequel to a similar investigation carried on during a long period by Mr. C. J. P. Cave into the occurrence of thunderstorms in winter. The British Rainfall Organization, which is now part of the organisation of the Meteorological Office, Air Ministry, no doubt began in much the same way to supply information about one meteorological element with a greater degree of detail than could possibly be done without the aid of voluntary observers. The demand for such detailed information about rainfall on the part of engineers occupied with water supply is considerable and fully justifies a permanent organisation of that kind; whether the same will be found in the case of thunderstorms as a result of electrical developments, wireless transmission, and aviation, remains to be seen.
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A Census of Summer Thunderstorms. Nature 130, 587–588 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130587a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130587a0