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Centre of Gravity of Annual Rainfall

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THE question whether Mr. Cook's suggestions in NATURE of March 31 have a practical value can be very simply settled. It is proposed to consider the month to month rainfalls at a place as a series of parallel forces, p1, p2p12, say, where the distance (X) from the beginning of the year of the corresponding “centre of gravity” is given by

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WATT, A. Centre of Gravity of Annual Rainfall. Nature 83, 188 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083188b0

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