Weather Recurrences and Weather Cycles¹

Abstract

EVERY year the weather is in some sense abnormal, but the past twelve months have given us rather more than our fair share of extremes, beginning with the most severe winter since the famous frost of 1895, continuing through several long periods of drought to the rainiest November on record. Unusual weather always leads to much discussion in the Press of the time-honoured subject of weather cycles, and 1929 was no exception. The point that the interval of thirty-four years since 1895 was within a year of the famous Brückner cycle was not missed, and the spells of cool rainy weather which tempered the dryness of spring and summer have been widely hailed as manifestations of the ‘Buchan cold spells’.