AUGUST,1927 MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW for Oxford, Valentia, Lerwick, Abisko (North Scandi- The most important cyclonic centers, accompanied by navia), Lindenberg (Berlin), and Arosa (southeastern fair, cold weather, were charted through the following Switzerland), slight corrections being applied to get more periods: 1st to 5th, 6th to 11th) 15th to 18th) and 22d satisfactory values than those in the earlier paper. to 31st. The first of these made itself felt in all of Chile (See Abstract 153?, 1926.) (1) Tlie annual variation and in a large part of Argentina. with a masimum in April and a minimum in October Tlie depressions most productive of unsettled weather is confirmed. (2) The departure of the amount of O3 and rain were those of the lst-2d, crossing the extreme from the mean is found to be greater for days of high H southern region; the 3d, lying off Isla Mocha; the 8th- than for days of low H, while the effect is more marked 15th, bringing heavy storms of rain and wind over a on days on high magnetic character. (3) Tlie connec- considerable area; the 1Sth-22d; and the 26th-31st, tion found with sunspots in 1935 broke down in 1926, causing dense fog in all of the land. and more observations are required, of which those from Rains fell over the region estending from tlie Provinces Montezunia will be most useful. (4) O3 content is low of Atacarrin and Coquimho on the north to Magellanes for anticyclones and high for depressions, while for the on the south. At Santiago the precipitation for the latter the value is higher in the rear than in the front, nionth was 112.2 mni. (4.43 inches), while at Valdivia it as if the origin of the air affected the amount of 03. An was 283.7 mm. (11.13 inclies).-TrunsZ.-W. 117. R. even closer relation exists for pressure in the stratosphere than for that at the surface. (5) o3may esist at a level METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY FOR BRAZIL, JULY, 1927 such as 10 to 20 kilometers and not only in the higher By J. DE SAMPAIOFERRAZ, Director levels. The lower layer is probably connected with anti- cyclones and depressions, and the upper layer with solar [Directorla de Meteorologia, Rio de Janeiro] and magnetic conditions and probably also with the The secondary circulation continued active in this annual variations.-R. S. R. month with four migratory anticyclones and frequent changes pressures. Temperature was particularly low METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY FOR SOUTHERN SOUTH of AMERICA, JULY, 1927 in southern Brazil, with general frosts and high winds in the first and last decades. By J. 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