Abstract
IN an interesting article in The Popular Science Monthly (vol. Ixxviii.) on “The Meteorology of the Future,” Prof. Cleveland Abbe stated that: “In India the prediction of great droughts has long been held to be one of the most important questions that can be attacked by the weather bureau of that country, and eminent men have worked upon it for twenty years past.” The failure of the monsoon rains and the consequent failure of crops will cause famine over very extensive districts, while a timely and successful forecast, or “inference,” of the probable rainfall during the season in question (June to early October) may effect an immense saving to the Government.
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